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Tuesday, 6 November 2012

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Mr Hill is the figure in the famous Zapruder film of the killing which
shows him climbing onto the back of the president's limousine.

‘I heard the first shot, saw the president grab his throat, lurch left
and I knew something was wrong,’ he recalled, his voice halting.
‘When I got to the presidential vehicle, just as I approached it, a
third shot rang out, hitting the president in the head, just above the
right ear and left a hole about the size of my palm.
Vivid memory: Now in his seventies, Hill still remembers the tragic day clearly
‘There were blood and brains spewed about over myself and the car.
‘I helped Mrs Kennedy get in the back seat and the President fell into her lap.
‘I was quite sure it was a fatal wound. The First Lady was in shock. She
was doing the best she could, she was covered in blood.’
On the way to Parkland Hospital, where the president would be certified,
dead there was little conversation. But, according to Mrs Hill, Mrs
Kennedy ‘said something about, "Oh, Jack, what have they done? What have
they done?".‘
In the book the agents also discussed what it was like to work in the
White House and addressed a number of rumours, such as the affair
between Mr Kennedy and Marilyn Monroe which they say never happened.
The agents hope their books will put an end to the ‘conspiracy theory
industry’ which has grown up around Mr Kennedy’s assassination.
Ex-agent Gerald Blaine said: ‘Most of history today has been written by
what I call a cottage industry called 'conspiracy’. ‘If we didn't speak
up and give a balance to this, history would never know exactly what
happened.’

Seared into the memories of all Americans who lived
through the assassination of President John F. Kennedy is exactly where they
were on November 22, 1963. Yet private citizen Richard Nixon, who — believe it
or not — was in Dallas, could not recall this fact in a post-assassination
interview with the FBI.The interview dealt with an apparently false claim by
Marina Oswald that her husband —alleged Kennedy assassin Lee Harvey Oswald — had
targeted Nixon for death during an earlier trip to Dallas. A Feb. 28, 1964 FBI
report on the interview said Nixon "advised that the only time he was in Dallas,
Texas, during 1963 was two days prior to the assassination of President John F.
Kennedy."While Nixon eventually came clean regarding his
whereabouts on that fateful day, he seemed touchy whenever the matter was
raised. For example, in a 1992 interview with CNN's Larry King, Nixon
interjected he was in Dallas "In the morning!" when King cited the presumed
geographical coincidence. Nixon left Dallas on a flight to New York several
hours before Kennedy's noontime arrival at Love Field.Not only did Nixon misremember where he was on November 22nd,
he made at least two conflicting statements about how he first learned his
archrival had been shot. In a 1964 Reader's Digest article, he recalled
hailing a cab after his Dallas-New York flight: "We were waiting for a light to
change when a man ran over from the street corner and said that
the President had just been shot in Dallas." In November of 1973, however, Nixon
said in Esquire that his cabbie "missed a turn somewhere and we were off
the highway...a woman came out of her house screaming and crying.
I rolled down the cab window to ask what the matter was and when she saw my face
she turned even paler. She told me that John Kennedy had just been shot in
Dallas."In yet another curious twist, a November 22nd
wire service photo of Nixon indicates he might even have learned of the shooting
before his cab ride. In the photo, a glum-looking Nixon, hat in lap, is
sitting in what appears to be an airline terminal. The caption on the United
Press International photo reads: "Shocked Richard Nixon, the former vice
president who lost the presidential election to President Kennedy in 1960, is
shown Friday after he arrived at Idlewild Airport in New York following a flight
from Dallas, Tex., where he had been on a business trip."In the 1992 King interview, Nixon maintained he'd never
had any interest in digging into the JFK assassination: "I don't see a useful
purpose in getting into that and I don't think it's frankly useful for the
Kennedy family to constantly raise that up again." Nixon's professed disinterest doesn't ring true, however,
for it came from one of our snoopiest chief executives — a politician who just
relished investigations, spying, secrets, and conspiracies. As Nixon aide John
Ehrlichman once observed: "He was a conspiracy buff. He liked intrigue, and he
liked secret maneuverings of the FBI, and he liked to hear about what the CIA
did, and so on. He just couldn't leave that stuff alone."As for Nixon's stated compassion for the Kennedys, let's
not forget that he deeply despised them. So much so that, as president, he
ordered chief White House spy E. Howard Hunt to forge diplomatic cables to make
it look like President Kennedy ordered the murder of South Vietnamese leader Ngo
Dinh Diem. He sent another spy, Anthony Ulasewicz, to Chappaquiddick, Mass., to
investigate the 1969 crash of a car driven by Edward Kennedy that killed the
senator's female companion. He placed Sen. Kennedy under a 24-hour-a-day Secret
Service surveillance in an effort, in Nixon's phrase, "to catch him in the sack
with one of his babes." And Nixon pressed aides to plant a false story in the
press linking Sen. Kennedy to the 1972 assassination attempt against Alabama
Gov. George Wallace. What did Nixon do in Dallas? He arrived on Nov. 20 to
attend a board meeting of the Pepsi Cola Company, one of his law clients. Dallas
reporter Jim Marrs says Nixon and actress Joan Crawford, a Pepsi heiress, "made
comments to the effect that they, unlike the president, didn't need Secret
Service protection, and they intimated the nation was upset with Kennedy's
policies. It has been suggested that this taunting may have been responsible for
Kennedy's critical decision not to order the Plexiglas top placed on his
limousine on Nov. 22."When adviser Stephen Hess saw Nixon that same afternoon at
the former vice president's New York apartment, he said Nixon was "pretty shook
up." Hess later portrayed his boss to political reporter Jules Witcover as
unusually defensive about his pre-assassination comments in Dallas: "He had the
morning paper, which he made a great effort to show me, reporting he had held a
press conference in Dallas and made a statement that you can disagree with a
person without being discourteous to him or interfering with him. He tried to
make the point that he had tried to prevent it … It was his way of saying,
‘Look, I didn't fuel this thing.'" What Nixon apparently failed to tell Hess was that the
major story from his meeting with reporters in Dallas was certain to fuel the
anger of some Texans toward Kennedy. The headline in the Dallas Morning News
on November 22 said: "Nixon Predicts JFK May Drop Johnson." Vice President
Lyndon Johnson was, of course, a Texan.On the morning after the assassination, Nixon convened a
meeting of Republican leaders at his New York apartment. Those assembled were
"already assessing how this event would affect or recreate the possibilities of
Nixon running for president," according to Hess.Boasting that he was the mastermind of a Mob/CIA plot to
kill President Kennedy, Chicago godfather Sam Giancana told relatives he was in
Dallas on Nov. 22, 1963 to supervise that plot. Giancana claimed that both
"Richard Nixon and Lyndon Johnson knew about the whole damn thing"— adding that
he had met with both future presidents in Dallas "immediately prior to the
assassination." Giancana's half-bother Chuck and nephew Sam claimed in
their 1992 book Double Cross that the Mafia don had a long, warm, and
mutually rewarding relationship with Nixon that dated back to the 1940s. In
those times, Giancana was helping Chicago Syndicate boss Anthony Accardo
consolidate the city's rackets and gambling operations, and Nixon was a freshman
congressman from California. In recounting for his relatives a big favor the
congressman did for Giancana back then, the gangster established a direct link
between Nixon and a Chicago hoodlum who later moved to Texas and went on to
shoot Lee Harvey Oswald: "Nixon's done me some favors, all right, got us some
highway contracts, worked with the unions and overseas. And we've helped him and
his CIA buddies out, too. Shit, he even helped my guy in Texas, (Jack) Ruby, get
out of testifying in front of Congress back in forty-seven … By sayin' Ruby
worked for him."A 1947 memo, found in 1975 by a scholar going through a
pile of recently released FBI documents, supports Giancana's contention. In the
memo, addressed to a congressional committee investigating organized crime, an
FBI assistant states: "It is my sworn testimony that one Jack Rubenstein of
Chicago ... is performing information functions for the staff of Congressman
Richard Nixon, Republican of California. It is requested Rubenstein not be
called for open testimony in the aforementioned hearings." (Later in 1947,
Rubenstein moved to Dallas and shortened his last name.) The FBI subsequently
called the memo a fake, but the reference service Facts on File considers it
authentic.Undercover work for the young Congressman Nixon would have
been in keeping with Ruby's history as a police tipster and government
informant. In 1950, Ruby gave closed-door testimony to Estes Kefauver's special
Senate committee investigating organized crime. Committee staffer Luis Kutner
later described Ruby as "a syndicate lieutenant who had been sent to Dallas to
serve as a liaison for Chicago mobsters." In exchange for Ruby's testimony, the
FBI is said to have eased up on its probe of organized crime in Dallas. In 1959,
Ruby became an informant for the FBI.Ruby's old Chicago boss, Giancana, was murdered in his
home in Oak Park, Ill., in 1975 — shortly before he was to have appeared before
a Senate committee investigating assassinations. Seven .22-caliber bullets were
blasted into his mouth and neck, Mob symbolism for "talks too much."Giancana had never been adept at keeping secrets. When
Mob/CIA hit teams were planning to assassinate Cuban leader Fidel Castro in 1960
— an operation reportedly overseen by Vice President Richard Nixon—Giancana's
loose lips allowed FBI Director J. Edgar Hoover to discover the plans. Lee Harvey Oswald was at his Dallas job as an order-filler
at the Texas School Book Depository on Nov. 22. Shortly after shots rang out in
Dealey Plaza, Oswald fled the crime scene. Later that afternoon, a policeman
trying to arrest Oswald was shot to death. After a struggle with the armed
Oswald in a movie theater, police apprehended him and charged him with the
murders of both President Kennedy and the policeman.In 1964, a presidential commission headed by Chief Justice
Earl Warren concluded that Oswald — firing a rifle from a sniper's nest on the
sixth floor of the depository — was Kennedy's sole assassin. The commission
portrayed Oswald as a ''discontented'' loner whose "avowed commitment to Marxism
and Communism" might have contributed to his deed. But the Warren Commission had
not looked carefully at the alleged assassin's ties to the Syndicate. In New
Orleans — where Oswald spent significant portions of his life — Oswald's uncle
and substitute father was Charles "Dutz" Murret, an important bookie in
godfather Carlos Marcello's gambling apparatus. Oswald's mother, Marguerite,
dated members of Marcello's gang. Oswald friend David Ferrie worked for
Marcello; had alleged ties to the CIA; and, in 1967, was named by New Orleans
District Attorney Jim Garrison as a key JFK assassination plotter. The exact route of the presidential motorcade was
announced far in advance of the event — a practice the Secret Service
halted in the wake of the JFK assassination. Just two days before President Kennedy's murder,
suspicious activity caught the eyes of two Dallas policemen on routine
patrol in Dealey Plaza. The officers observed several men with rifles
standing behind the picket fence on the plaza's grassy knoll. The riflemen
were participating in mock target practice —aiming their guns over the fence
in the direction of the street. By the time the patrolmen reached the area,
however, the unidentified men had vanished.Realizing the significance of this information in the
immediate aftermath of the assassination, Dallas police forwarded it to the FBI.
But an FBI report on the incident, dated Nov. 26 1963, apparently was not turned
over to the Warren Commission. This report — clearly pointing to a conspiracy — was
finally made public in 1978 in response to a Freedom of Information request. In 1979, a House committee differed with the commission's
finding that Oswald acted alone. After a two-year study, the panel indicated
there were at least two shooters, declared that Kennedy "was probably
assassinated as a result of a conspiracy," and it fingered the Mafia as having
the "motive, means, and opportunity." Two top committee staffers — Robert Blakey
and Richard Billings — later wrote of their conviction that "Oswald was acting
in behalf of members of the Mob, who wanted relief from the pressure of the
Kennedy administration's war on crime led by Attorney General Robert F.
Kennedy." The two investigators flatly asserted that the president
of the Mob-dominated Teamsters union, Jimmy Hoffa — along with Mob bosses Carlos
Marcello, Santos Trafficante and Sam Giancana — planned and carried out the
president's slaying. They said both Oswald and Ruby were Mafia-connected, and
that Ruby silenced Oswald on orders from the Mob. In a recent book, former Mafia
consigliere Bill Bonanno — the son of legendary New York godfather Joe Bonanno —
also maintains that Hoffa, Marcello, Trafficante, and Giancana were involved in
the JFK assassination.In 2001, a scientific study supported the conclusion first
propounded by the House committee in 1979: that sounds heard on police
recordings from Dealey Plaza are consistent with a shot being fired from the
famed grassy knoll — bolstering the panel's finding that Kennedy's murder
probably resulted from a plot.Jack Ruby was a busy man in Dallas on Nov. 22. Only hours
before Kennedy's arrival, the debt-ridden striptease club operator met with
Mafia paymaster Paul Jones. Shortly after Kennedy was shot, Ruby showed up at
Parkland Hospital, where the president had been taken — though he later denied
being there at that critical time. Minutes after Kennedy was pronounced dead,
Ruby phoned Alex Gruber — an associate of one of Jimmy Hoffa's top officials,
and a man with known connections to hoodlums who worked for racketeer Mickey
Cohen. Ruby and Gruber had met 10 days earlier in Dallas. When he was arrested
for killing Oswald two days later, Ruby had $2,000 on his person and authorities
found $10,000 in his apartment.On the evening of the 22nd, Ruby was hanging
around on the same floor of the police station where Oswald was being
questioned. He even attended the midnight police station press conference at
which Oswald was trotted out briefly for the world to see. Ruby corrected the
district attorney when he told reporters that Oswald belonged to the Free Cuba
Committee, an anti-Castro outfit. Ruby pointed out that the D.A. had meant Fair
Play for Cuba, a pro-Castro group. Like Oswald, Ruby could well have been under the control
of the Mob, especially of Marcello — whose territory extended to Dallas, and
whose take from underworld activities in Louisiana alone at the time was put at
$1 billion-a-year. Ruby had lifelong connections to the Mafia and was involved
in slot machines and bookmaking operations under Marcello's command. In 1959,
Ruby reportedly visited Mob boss Santos Trafficante in a Cuban prison. After
Oswald's murder, Ruby's brother approached one of Jimmy Hoffa's lawyers to
represent Ruby.More than a dozen people claim to have seen Ruby and
Oswald together during the four months prior to the Kennedy assassination. In
1994, Dallas reporters Ray and Mary La Fontaine claimed that, shortly after
Oswald's arrest on Nov. 22, he told a cellmate that he and Ruby attended a
meeting in a local hotel just days earlier.CIA agent E. Howard Hunt — Richard Nixon's top confederate
in past and future undercover operations — may also have been in Dallas the day
President Kennedy was killed. During a 1985 trial in Miami, CIA operative Morita
Lorenz testified that, on Nov. 21, at a Dallas motel, she saw Hunt pay money to
another agency operative — Hunt pal and future Watergate burglar Frank Sturgis.
She maintained that, shortly after Hunt left, Jack Ruby showed up. Lorenz
returned to her home in Miami that same night, but said Sturgis later told her
what she had missed in Dallas on Nov. 22, 1963: "We killed the president that
day."The testimony came in a suit brought by Hunt against the
right-wing newsletter Spotlight for printing a 1978 article titled, "CIA
to Admit Hunt Involvement in Kennedy Slaying." The jury ruled in favor of the
newsletter.At one time, Lorenz was Fidel Castro's girlfriend. In
1959, Hunt and Sturgis had recruited her into the CIA with the goal of killing
the Cuban leader. At the trial, Lorenz identified Hunt as Sturgis's CIA
paymaster. She said that, on Nov. 21, Hunt gave Sturgis an envelope of cash at
the Dallas motel after she and Sturgis arrived there to take part in what she
was told was a "confidential" operation. In a deposition for the Miami trial, a reporter testified
he had once seen an internal CIA memo, dated 1966, which said: "Some day we will
have to explain Hunt's presence in Dallas on Nov. 22, 1963." That reporter —
Joseph Trento — had co-authored a 1978 article for the Wilmington News
Journal headlined: "Was Hunt in Dallas the Day JFK Died?" His piece
contained speculation by "some CIA sources" that "Hunt thought he was assigned
by higher-ups to arrange the murder of Lee Harvey Oswald." In 1975, a JFK assassination researcher in Texas received
from an anonymous source a copy of a brief handwritten Nov. 8, 1963 note to a
"Mr. Hunt" purportedly from Oswald. The writer asked for "information concerding
[sic] my position. I am asking only for information. I am asking that we discuss
the matter fully before any steps are taken by me or anyone else." Three
handwriting experts found that the writing was that of Oswald. "Concerning" was
also misspelled in a letter Oswald was known to have written in 1961.That the note was meant for E. Howard Hunt makes sense.
Oswald and Hunt once worked out of the same office building in New Orleans. On
behalf of the CIA, Hunt had set up a dummy organization called "The Cuban
Revolutionary Council" at 544 Camp Street — the same address Oswald put on
pro-Castro leaflets he handed out. The same building also housed the detective
agency of former FBI agent Guy Banister — who was associated with the CIA, the
Mafia, Cuban exile leaders, and suspected JFK assassination plotter David Ferrie.Ex-CIA agent Victor Marchetti has linked Hunt and Sturgis
with Ferrie. Sturgis has claimed: that he knew Oswald; that documents existed at
the CIA detailing the role of Ruby in the Kennedy killing; and that Oswald and
Ruby once met in a hotel in New Orleans.Though he was not in Dallas on Nov. 22, 1963, Jimmy Hoffa
played an important role in President Kennedy's murder, according to longtime
Hoffa and Mob lawyer Frank Ragano, who detailed Hoffa's alleged involvement in
1994. Ragano said he carried a message from the Teamster's boss to a July 24,
1963 meeting with Marcello and Trafficante in New Orleans. The message: Hoffa
"wants you to do a little favor for him. You won't believe this, but he wants
you to kill John Kennedy. He wants you to get rid of the president right away."Ragano said the facial expressions of the two Mob bosses
"were icy. Their reticence was a signal that this was an uncomfortable subject,
one they were unwilling to discuss." But Ragano said Trafficante, on his
deathbed in 1987, confessed that he and Marcello did, indeed, follow through on
Hoffa's "favor." Ragano quoted the ailing Mob chief as saying: "Who would have
thought that someday he would be president and he would name his goddam brother
attorney general? Goddam Bobby. I think Carlos fucked up in getting rid of
Giovanni (John in Italian) — maybe it should have been Bobby."Jimmy Hoffa hated John and Robert Kennedy as much as
Richard Nixon did. Robert Kennedy had been trying to put Hoffa in jail since
1956, when he was staff counsel for a Senate probe into the Mob's influence on
the labor movement. In 1960, Robert Kennedy said, "No group better fits the
prototype of the old Al Capone syndicate than Jimmy Hoffa and some of his
lieutenants." In the 1960 presidential election, Hoffa and his two
million-member union backed Vice President Nixon against Sen. John Kennedy.
Edward Partin, a Louisiana Teamster official and later government informant,
eventually revealed that Hoffa met with Marcello to secretly fund the Nixon
campaign — saying, "I was right there, listening to the conversation. Marcello
had a suitcase filled with $500,000 cash which was going to Nixon ... (Another
half-million dollar contribution) was coming from Mob boys in New Jersey and
Florida." The Hoffa-Marcello meeting took place in New Orleans on Sept. 26,
1960, and has been verified by William Sullivan, a former top FBI official.Nixon lost the 1960 election, and Hoffa — thanks to
Attorney General Robert Kennedy — soon wound up in prison for jury tampering and
looting the union's pension funds of almost $2 million. But the Nixon-Hoffa
connection was strong enough to last at least until Dec. 23, 1971—when, as
president, Nixon gave Hoffa an executive grant of clemency, allowing Hoffa to
serve just five years of a 13-year prison term.Nixon apparently sprung Hoffa in exchange for a big
underworld payoff. A recently released FBI memo backs up an earlier claim by
an FBI informant that James P. ("Junior") Hoffa — current head of the Teamsters
— and racketeer Allen Dorfman delivered $300,000 in a black valise to a Nixon
bagman at a Washington hotel to secure the elder Hoffa's release from the pen.
Breaking from clemency custom, Nixon did not consult the
judge who had sentenced Hoffa. Nor did he pay any mind to the U.S. Parole Board
— which had been warned by the Justice Department that Hoffa was Mob-connected.
At the time, The New York Times called the clemency a "pivotal element in
the strange love affair between the (Nixon) administration and the
two-million-member truck union…" Former Mafia bigwig Joe Bonanno recently
described Nixon's clemency for Hoffa as "a gesture — if ever there was one, of
the national power (the Mob) once enjoyed."President Nixon did put one restriction on Hoffa's
freedom: He could never again, directly or indirectly, manage any union. The
restriction — a favor to Hoffa's successor, Frank Fitzsimmons — was reputedly
bought by a $500,000 contribution to the Nixon campaign by New Jersey Teamster
leader Anthony Provenzano.In July 1975, Hoffa vanished in a Detroit suburb and his
body has never been found. Many federal and local investigators believe he was
shot to death after being lured to a meeting with Provenzano. They speculate
that Hoffa's body was taken away by truck, stuffed into a fifty-gallon drum —
then crushed and smelted. Newly released FBI documents show that, in 1978, federal
investigators sought to force Nixon and Fitzsimmons to testify about events
surrounding Hoffa's disappearance. The investigators had concluded that such
testimony offered the last, best chance of solving the Hoffa mystery. But they
accused top Justice Department officials of derailing their efforts to call the
ex-president and the Teamster boss before a Detroit grand jury. The records also reveal that FBI agents suspected the
Nixon White House of soliciting $1 million from the Teamsters to pay hush money
to the Watergate burglars. In fact, in early 1973 — when the Watergate cover-up was coming apart at the
seams — aide John Dean told the president that $1 million might be needed to
keep the burglary team silent. Nixon responded, "We could get that … you could
get a million dollars. You could get it in cash, I know where it could be
gotten." When Dean observed that money laundering "is the type of thing Mafia
people can do," Nixon calmly answered: "Maybe it takes a gang to do that."In August 1974, Nixon became the first president forced to
quit the office. He did so as Congress prepared to impeach and expel him for a
wide range of illegal activities and abuses of constitutional power he directed
or concealed during the Watergate scandal. Forty Nixon administration officials
were indicted or jailed. The president was named by a grand jury as an
unindicted co-conspirator. In what smacked of a sweetheart deal, one month after
he stepped down, Nixon's handpicked successor — President Gerald Ford — granted
him a complete pardon for all the presidential crimes he might have committed.After spending more than a year brooding in self-exile at
his walled estate in San Clemente, Calif., the very first post-resignation
invitation Nixon accepted was from his Teamsters buddies. On Oct. 9, 1975, he
played golf at a Mob-owned California resort with Fitzsimmons and other top
Teamsters. Among those who attended a post-golf game party for Nixon were
Anthony Provenzano, Allen Dorfman, and the union's executive secretary, Murray
("Dusty") Miller.A convicted Mafia killer, Provenzano went on to become a
prime suspect in Hoffa's disappearance. In the two months before President
Kennedy's assassination, Jack Ruby was in telephone contact with Murray Miller,
and with Barney Baker — who was once described by Robert Kennedy as "Hoffa's
ambassador of violence." Ruby was also in touch with key figures from the
Marcello, Trafficante, and Giancana crime families.Documents that came to light in 2007 show that, shortly
after the president's murder, Atty. Gen. Robert Kennedy's right-hand man Walter
Sheridan – dispatched by RFK on a secret investigative mission to Dallas –
quickly reported back that Jimmy Hoffa associate Allen Dorfman had paid off Jack
Ruby in Chicago. A witness to that payoff – reportedly of $7,000 in 100 dollar
bills stuffed into a manila envelope – says it occurred on the weekend of Oct.
27th 1963.James P. "Junior" Hoffa has said, "I think my dad knew
Jack Ruby, but from what I understand, he (Ruby) was the kind of guy everybody
knew. So what?" JFK assassination authority Anthony Summers reasons, however,
that — given Hoffa's record of threats against the lives of both John and Robert
Kennedy — "the potential significance of such a connection is immense." Mob experts connect Richard Nixon to Carlos Marcello — and
to Jimmy Hoffa — through Nixon's earliest campaign manager and longest-serving
adviser, Murray Chotiner. And they tie Nixon to Santos Trafficante through
Nixon's best friend, Florida banker Bebe Rebozo. Mickey Cohen — one of the most
notorious mobsters in Los Angeles — admitted rounding up underworld money for
two early Nixon campaigns. Charles Colson — Nixon's presidential emissary to the
Teamsters — once raised the theory that Mafia bosses "owned" Rebozo and had
gotten "their hooks into Nixon early." By the 1960s, FBI agents keeping tabs on
the Mob had identified Rebozo as a "non-member associate of organized crime
figures," it is now known. An off-the-books military probe conducted in the
waning days of the Nixon presidency found "strong indications of a history of
Nixon connections with money from organized crime," the chief investigator later
revealed.In an unpublicized presidential move, Nixon ordered the
Justice Department to stop using the words "Mafia" and "Cosa Nostra" to describe
the multi-billion dollar national crime syndicate. The president was roundly
applauded when he boasted about his order at a private 1971 Oval Office meeting
with some 40 members of the Supreme Council of the Sons of Italy. The group's
Supreme Venerable, Americo Cortese, thanked Nixon for his moral leadership —
declaring, "You are our terrestrial god."The Nixon administration intervened on the side of Mafia
figures in at least 20 trials. And it denied an FBI request to continue an
electronic surveillance operation that was starting to penetrate Mob/Teamsters
connections.During the Nixon years, pressure from Washington eased off
on Sam Giancana. And long-standing deportation proceedings against CIA-connected
mobster Johnny Roselli were dropped. Without going into specifics, government
lawyers explained in court that Roselli had performed "valuable services to the
national security." A Giancana henchman, Roselli was an important contact man in
the Mob/CIA assassination plots against Cuban leader Fidel Castro. Roselli and Jack Ruby are reported to have met in hotels
in Miami during the months before the JFK assassination. Years later, Roselli
told columnist Jack Anderson: "When Oswald was picked up, the underworld
conspirators feared he would crack and disclose information that might lead to
them. This almost certainly would have brought a massive U.S. crackdown on the
Mafia. So Jack Ruby was ordered to eliminate Oswald . . ." In the mid-‘70s, as congressional committees probed the
Mob and the CIA, Roselli was dismembered, squeezed into an oil drum, and tossed
off the Florida coast; Giancana was gunned down in his kitchen; and Jimmy Hoffa
disappeared. Back in the Eisenhower years, Vice President Richard Nixon
and CIA agent E. Howard Hunt were principal secret planners of the Bay of Pigs
invasion of Cuba that failed so miserably when it was later launched by
President Kennedy. Some historians are convinced Nixon was a prime mover in an
associated — and also ill-fated — plot to assassinate Fidel Castro. For example,
onetime Nixon aide Roger Morris says Nixon "had been an avid supporter of the
Eisenhower administration's covert operations to overthrow Castro, including the
alliance with organized crime to assassinate the Cuban leader." For his part,
Hunt has readily admitted his role in efforts to murder Castro.For the "executive action" mission, potential assassins
were recruited from Mafia ranks, so that if any of their activities were
disclosed, organized crime could be blamed. Nixon confidant Robert Maheu fronted for the CIA on the
Mob plots. A high-end private eye (and ex-FBI undercover operative) who
functioned in the shadowy realm between U.S. intelligence services and the
national criminal syndicate, Maheu had performed previous "dirty tricks" for
both Nixon and Giancana. Hoffa had also been a client of Maheu, who would
eventually become the top aide to Mob-and CIA-connected billionaire and Nixon
financial angel Howard Hughes.The hit on Castro was to have been carried out at the same
time as the secret Nixon-Hunt plan for the invasion by CIA-trained exiles. The
invasion was a military debacle when later ordered by President Kennedy — who
publicly accepted full responsibility for the April 17, 1961 landing in which
1,500 exiles were quickly overwhelmed by some 20,000 Cuban troops. Convinced,
however, that the CIA set him up, Kennedy fired CIA chief Allen Dulles — an old
Nixon friend — and swore he'd dismantle the agency.Nixon, Hunt, and many CIA and Cuban exile leaders pinned
almost complete blame for the military catastrophe on Kennedy for not providing
adequate air cover. At the time, Nixon told a reporter it was "near criminal"
for Kennedy to have canceled the air cover. Privately, he must have
been just as upset that Castro had not been bumped off. In one of his many
books, Hunt later accused the president of "a failure of nerves."Nixon's secret Mafia buddies, already enraged by Kennedy's
anti-crime crusade in this country, were furious that their lucrative gambling
casinos — shuttered by Castro — would not be returning to Cuba. In the immediate aftermath of his brother's murder, Atty.
Gen. Robert Kennedy suspected the Mafia – as well as the CIA and the Cuban
exiles. And he soon became consumed by a desire to track down, expose and punish
the plotters during what he hoped would be his own time in the White House,
according to David Talbot in Brothers: The Hidden History of the Kennedy Years,
published in 2007. Talbot says RFK's quest began on the very afternoon of the
assassination in Dallas:

(Bobby) frantically worked the phones at Hickory Hill – his Civil War-era
mansion in McLean, Va. – and summoned aides and government officials to his
home. Lit up with the clarity of shock, the electricity of adrenaline, Bobby
Kennedy constructed the outlines of the crime that day – a crime, he immediately
concluded, that went far beyond Lee Harvey Oswald, the 24-year-old ex-Marine
arrested shortly after the assassination. Robert Kennedy was America's first
assassination conspiracy theorist.

Through fresh interviews, newly released documents and gripping words, Talbot
makes a compelling case that Bobby's reluctance to publicly discuss his
brother's death was a ruse. To family members, however, Bobby confided, "JFK had
been killed by a powerful plot that grew out of one of the government's secret
anti-Castro operations. There was nothing they could do at that point, Bobby
added, since they were facing a formidable enemy and they no longer controlled
the government."E. Howard Hunt, of course, went on to become President
Nixon's chief dirty trickster and secret intelligence operative. In 1972, five
Hunt-recruited former CIA men — all veterans of the Bay of Pigs invasion
planning — were caught by police while burglarizing Democratic headquarters at
the Watergate office building in Washington. Fearing that Hunt's role would soon
be learned — and the burglary traced back to the White House —Nixon immediately
set out to blackmail g an FBI investigation of the break-in.
He had his chief of staff, Bob Haldeman, tell CIA Director Richard Helms that
Hunt, if apprehended, might spill the beans about a major CIA secret. On one of
the original Watergate tapes, the president rehearsed Haldeman on exactly what
to tell the intelligence chief: "Hunt knows too damned much ... If this gets out
that this is all involved ... it would make the CIA look bad, it's going to make
Hunt look bad, and it's likely to blow the whole Bay of Pigs thing ... which we
think would be very unfortunate for both the CIA and the country ... and for
American foreign policy."In a generally overlooked revelation in a post-Watergate
book, Haldeman said: "It seems that in all those Nixon references to the Bay of
Pigs, he was actually referring to the Kennedy assassination. (Interestingly, an
investigation of the Kennedy assassination was a project I suggested when I
first entered the White House. Now I felt we would be in a position to get all
the facts. But Nixon turned me down.)" Haldeman added that the CIA pulled off a
"fantastic cover-up" that "literally erased any connection between the Kennedy
assassination and the CIA." On a White House tape made public in the 1990s, Haldeman
fingered Nixon as the source of his information that the CIA had reason to fear
Hunt's possible disclosure of "Bay of Pigs" secrets. The newest Nixon tapes are
studded with deletions — segments deemed by government censors as too sensitive
for public scrutiny. "National Security" is cited. Not surprisingly, such
deletions often occur during discussions involving the Bay of Pigs, E. Howard
Hunt, and John F. Kennedy. One of the most tantalizing nuggets about Nixon's possible
inside knowledge of JFK assassination secrets was buried on a White House tape
until 2002. On the tape, recorded in May of 1972, the president confided to two
top aides that the Warren Commission pulled off "the greatest hoax that has ever
been perpetuated." Unfortunately, he did not elaborate. But the context in which
Nixon raised the matter shows just how low he could stoop in efforts to
assassinate the character of his political adversaries.The Republican president made the "hoax" observation in
the immediate aftermath of the assassination attempt against White House hopeful
George Wallace, a longtime Democratic governor of Alabama. The attempt left
Wallace paralyzed below the waist. Nixon blurted out his comments about the
falsity of the Warren findings in the middle of a conversation in which he
repeatedly directed two of his most ruthless aides, Bob Haldeman and Chuck
Colson, to carry out a monumental dirty trick. He urged them to plant a false
news story linking the would-be Wallace assassin — Arthur Bremer — to two other
Democrats, Sen. Edward Kennedy and Sen. George McGovern —possible Nixon
opponents in that year's fall elections. "Screw the record," the president
orders on at one point. "Just say he was a supporter of that nut (it isn't clear
which of the two senators he is referring to). And put it out. Just say we have
an authenticated report."As well as helping to perpetuate the Kennedy assassination
"hoax" by turning down Haldeman's proposal for a new JFK probe, Nixon had a
major hand in perpetrating it. In November of 1964, on the eve of the official
release of the Warren Report, private citizen Nixon went public in support of
the panel's coming findings. In a piece for Reader's Digest, he portrayed
Oswald as the sole assassin. And Nixon implied that Castro — "a hero in the
warped mind" of Oswald — was the real culprit. Why did Nixon declare his belief in Oswald's guilt just
before publication of the commission's report? Was he acting in league with his
old buddies at the CIA and the FBI — as well as in the best interests of the Mob
— to give advance support to what they knew would be the report's lone-killer
conclusion? And why did Nixon stress Castro's alleged hold over Oswald's
thinking? Was he trying to ramp up enthusiasm for further efforts to topple the
Cuban leader?In an apparent slip of the lip that got little attention
at the time, a Watergate-stressed President Nixon himself suggested there was a
conspiracy behind the JFK assassination. In the summer of 1973, the president
publicly raised the assassination issue to divert attention from recent
disclosures of a widespread government wiretapping operation. He claimed that
Robert Kennedy, as attorney general, had authorized a larger number of wiretaps
than his own administration. "But I don't criticize it," he declared, adding,
"if he had ten more and — as a result of wiretaps — had been able to discover
the Oswald Plan, it would have been worth it."Whoops! The president apparently didn't realize his
reference to "the Oswald Plan" didn't square with the government's official
lone-killer finding. For if Lee Harvey Oswald had been solely responsible for
the assassination, then there would not have been anyone for Oswald to conspire
with about his "plan" — on a bugged telephone, or otherwise. Was Nixon
inadvertently revealing his knowledge that Mob leaders (Robert Kennedy's main
wiretap targets) had a role in President Kennedy's slaying? Was such a belief
based on information acquired as a result of Nixon's own solid ties to organized
crime and the Mafia-infested Teamsters union? In the late 1970s, the House assassinations committee
studied FBI electronic surveillance of the Mob over several months just before
and after the JFK assassination. It found what Mob expert Ron Goldfarb has
described as "expressions of outrage and betrayal and comments about ‘wacking
out Kennedy.'"That's because the Syndicate's tentacles had briefly
entangled John F. Kennedy too. In crucial ways, the Mafia had helped the
Massachusetts senator gain the presidency in 1960 — in exchange for a go-easy
attitude toward the Mob by the future Kennedy administration. Instead of keeping
his end of the bargain, however, President Kennedy started waging war on the
Mafia — and the godfathers went crazy with rage.

Of all the illegal activities undertaken by President
Nixon's secret agents E. Howard Hunt and G. Gordon Liddy, one stands out as
particularly sordid — the planned assassination of newspaper columnist Jack
Anderson, Nixon's arch foe in the media. Nixon-era stories by Anderson about
mobster Johnny Roselli (the Mafia's liaison with the CIA) and various Mob/CIA
plots infuriated the president and led to White House discussions about the
columnist's murder. The plot against Anderson came to light in 1975 when
The Washington Post reported that — "according to reliable sources" — Hunt
told associates after the Watergate break-in that he was ordered to kill the
columnist in December 1971 or January 1972. The plan allegedly involved the use
of poison obtained from a CIA physician. The Post reported that the
assassination order came from a "senior official in the Nixon White House," and
that it was "canceled at the last minute . . . " In an affidavit about a key meeting on the matter with his
White House boss, Hunt said Charles Colson "seemed more than usually agitated,
and I formed the impression that he had just come from a meeting with President
Nixon."Liddy admitted that he and Hunt had "examined all the
alternatives and very quickly came to the conclusion the only way you're going
to be able to stop (Anderson) is to kill him . . . And that was the
recommendation." Shortly after the Watergate break-in in 1972, Liddy offered to
be assassinated himself, if that would help the cover-up. He told White House
counsel John Dean: "This is my fault … And if somebody wants to shoot me on a
street corner, I'm prepared to have that done." In a 1980 legal case, Liddy
testified that there even came a time during the Nixon presidency "when I felt I
might well receive" instructions to kill E. Howard Hunt — adding, "I was
prepared, should I receive those orders, to carry them out immediately."An ends-justify-the-means operator, Richard Nixon ran a
pro-Mafia administration that carried out an ambitious criminal agenda of its
own — one that even countenanced murder. Wouldn't his Mob connections have at
least provided Nixon with inside dope —if not advance knowledge — about the
murder of his archrival? Is that why Nixon — a major beneficiary of President
Kennedy's assassination — concealed his knowledge of what really happened in
Dallas on that tragic November day 40 years ago? Is that why, as president, he
turned down a new JFK assassination inquiry — even while secretly dismissing the
Warren Report as a fraud? After all, it was not in Nixon's best interests — nor
in those of his chief patrons, Jimmy Hoffa and the Mob — to have the public
learn the truth.If President Nixon knew that the government's official
1964 conclusions about John F. Kennedy's murder were faked, didn't he at least
have the responsibility to set the record straight? Did his failure to do so
make him placidly complicit in that crime too?Watergate may not have been Nixon's biggest cover-up after
all.

A Timeline of Nixon's Ties to the Kennedy AssassinationNov. 1946: Nixon wins a
House seat with financial help from Meyer Lansky and other Mob leaders. Nixon's
campaign manager, Murray Chotnier, has top Mafia figures as legal clients—as
well as ties to New Orleans Mafia chief Carlos Marcello and Mob-connected
Teamsters official James Hoffa.1947: Congressman Nixon
intervenes to get Jack Ruby excused from testifying before a congressional
committee investigating the Mafia, according to an FBI memo discovered in the
1970s.1947: Nixon strongly backs
legislation establishing the Central Intelligence Agency. Around this time,
Nixon meets CIA agent E. Howard Hunt.1950: The Senate Kefauver
committee staff learns that Ruby was "a syndicate lieutenant who had been sent
to Dallas to serve as a liaison for Chicago mobsters," a former committee
staffer later discloses.Nov. 1950: Nixon is elected
to the Senate from California after suggesting his opponent was a communist
sympathizer.Nov. 1952: As Dwight
Eisenhower's running mate, Senator Nixon is elected vice president— despite a
scandal over a secret slush fund put together by wealthy California backers.Nov. 1956: Eisenhower is
re-elected president with Nixon as his vice president.1959-1960: Vice President
Nixon and CIA agent E. Howard Hunt are key figures in secret CIA efforts to
overthrow Cuban leader Fidel Castro. Nixon reportedly is the chief mover behind
an associated CIA/Mob plan to murder Castro. Hunt later admitted his role in
Castro assassination plots.Summer of 1960: The CIA asks
Nixon crony Robert Maheu—a former FBI agent with Mob contacts—to find mobsters
who might be able to pull off a hit on Castro.Nov. 1960: Sen. John F.
Kennedy defeats Nixon in a 1960 presidential cliff-hanger; after his January
1961 inauguration, the new president goes ahead with secret Nixon-Hunt plans for
a CIA-backed invasion of Cuba.April 1961: The amphibious
invasion at the Bay of Pigs is a monumental failure; Nixon, CIA, and Cuban exile
leaders blame Kennedy for withholding planned U-S air cover. Kennedy privately
blames the CIA and threatens to dismantle the agency.Nov. 1961: Kennedy fires
Nixon buddy Allen Dulles as CIA chief.Nov. 1962: Nixon is defeated
for governor of California after a secret $205,000 "loan" from Mob-linked
billionaire Howard Hughes to Nixon's brother becomes a major issue; Nixon soon
moves to New York and becomes a corporate lawyer. 1962-63: Angered by CIA
incompetence during the Bay of Pigs, Kennedy moves to limit the agency's power.Summer of 1963: Lee Harvey
Oswald and the CIA- and Mob-linked David Ferrie are seen together in Clinton,
La., the House assassinations committee later learns in testimony from numerous
witnesses.July 23, 1963: Teamsters
boss Jimmy Hoffa tells his lawyer, Frank Ragano, "Something has to be done. The
time has come for your friend (Santos Trafficante) and Carlos (Marcello) to get
rid of him, kill that son-of-a-bitch John Kennedy."Nov. 8: Oswald allegedly
writes a note to a "Mr. Hunt" asking for "information."Nov. 21: CIA agent Hunt is
spotted in Dallas at the same CIA "safe house" also visited that day by Jack
Ruby and Frank Sturgis, according to testimony in a 1985 court case.Nov. 21: Ostensibly in
Dallas to attend a Pepsi Cola convention, Nixon asks the city to give President
Kennedy a respectful welcome.Nov. 21: Chicago Mob boss
Sam Giancana meets with Nixon in Dallas to discuss the planned Kennedy
assassination, Giancana later tells relatives.Nov. 22: Nixon leaves
Dallas, apparently before Kennedy's arrival.Nov. 22: President Kennedy
is murdered in Dallas.Nov. 24: Ruby kills Oswald
in the basement of the Dallas police jail.1963: Nixon recommends
Congressman Gerald Ford for the Warren Commission.1964: Nixon lies to the FBI
about being in Dallas on Nov. 22, 1963.1964: Ford convinces the
commission to alter a key finding—making its preposterous "single bullet"
assassination theory slightly more believable, documents released in 1997 show.
The theory held that one of the bullets struck Kennedy in the back, came out his
neck, and then somehow critically wounded Texas Governor John Connally. Ford's
change placed the back wound higher in Kennedy's body. 1964: Nixon and Ford write
articles in advance of Warren Commission Report endorsing its anticipated
conclusion that Oswald alone was responsible for Kennedy's assassination.Sept. 1964: The Warren
Report finds that Oswald—firing from a sniper's nest on the sixth floor of the
Texas School Book Depository—was President Kennedy' sole assassin.Nov. 1968: In a squeaker,
Nixon is elected president with big support from the Teamsters union and the
Mob.1971: After a Mob payoff of
at least $300,000, Nixon grants clemency to Hoffa—who had been jailed for jury
tampering in 1967. June 1971: Former CIA agent
E. Howard Hunt secretly joins the Nixon White House as the president's chief
spy.May 1972: Nixon confides to
two top aides that the Warren Report was "the greatest hoax that has ever been
perpetuated," a White House tape released in 2002 reveals.June 17, 1972: A group of
burglars working for Nixon's re-election is caught by Washington, D.C. police
while breaking into Democratic headquarters at the Watergate complex. Hunt and
former FBI official G. Gordon Liddy are soon identified as the group's
supervisors.June 23, 1972: To gain CIA
help in the Watergate cover-up, Nixon tries to blackmail CIA chief Richard Helms
over the secrets that Hunt might blab regarding CIA's links to "the Bay of
Pigs"—which top Nixon aide Bob Haldeman later reveals to be Nixon/CIA code for
the JFK assassination.Nov. 1972: In a landslide,
Nixon is re-elected president with the help of a reported $1 million Teamsters'
contribution. May 1973: Haldeman reminds
Nixon that he—Nixon himself—had informed him that the CIA was hiding big "Bay of
Pigs" secrets—though this was not disclosed until 1996, when the National
Archives released a new batch of Watergate tapes. Sections of numerous Nixon
conversations dealing with "the Bay of Pigs," President Kennedy, and E. Howard
Hunt are deleted for "National Security" reasons.1973: Nixon picks
Congressman Ford to succeed the disgraced Spiro Agnew as his new vice president.August 1974: Nixon is forced
to resign the presidency over the Watergate scandal.September 1974: President
Ford grants Nixon a pre-emptive pardon for all crimes he might have committed.

A thorough analysis of Kennedy Assassination cover up

Between
1963 and 1966, Lyndon Johnson and J. Edgar Hoover successfully contained
public criticism about the Kennedy assassination investigation through
the Warren Report. In 1966, after the publication of two major critical
attacks by responsible critics, a gallup poll indicated that 66 percent
of the American people no longer believed the Warren Report and the
Congress began to call for a new investigation. The fraudulent campaign
to blame the Kennedy assassination on what Hoover had called the
"twisted mind" of Lee Oswald, proved too transparent to stand up to
public scrutiny, and the need to divert attention away from the truth
reemerged.

The collapse of the credibility of the Warren Report created a
desperate vacuum which was predictably filled by other absurd
distortions. The Warren Commission had successfully focused attention
almost exclusively upon Lee Harvey Oswald, and when it was determined
that the assertions it expounded were extremely frivolous, the pressure
to develop another cover up to conceal the truth produced bizarre
conspiracy theories that were well publicized as a replacement the
discredited Warren Report.

Not surprisingly, one of the sources of Kennedy assassination publicity
was Las Vegas gangster, Johnny Roselli. In late January 1967, Roselli's
lawyer claimed that he had important information about the assassination
of John F. Kennedy. Since two out of three Americans disbelieved the
Warren Report, Roselli promptly provided a whole new version of "truth"
to further confuse the non-believers.

Roselli's basic claim was that Fidel Castro was responsible for the
assassination of Kennedy. Despite the seriousness of the allegation, the
identity of Roselli was not revealed to the public as the accusation
was initially exposed through a "blind memorandum" prepared by Hoover's
FBI and promoted through the press. -in other words, it was a public
relations ploy sponsored by Lyndon Johnson and J. Edgar Hoover, the same
people who had initially used the Warren Report to cover up the truth
about the assassination of President Kennedy.

Johnson publicly embraced the rumour that a Cuban conspiracy was
responsible for the assassination of Kennedy, and when he was
interviewed by television newsman, Howard K. Smith, he dramatically
asserted: "I'll tell you something that will rock you. Kennedy was
trying to get Castro, but Castro got him first."

Lyndon Johnson was clearly aware of the fact that Castro had absolutely
nothing to do with the Kennedy assassination. Johnny Roselli, the Lee
Harvey Oswald-style source of the 'Castro got Kennedy' allegation, was a
well known Mafia operative (like Jack Ruby) who had established
Washington contacts through his participation in what was publicly
exposed to be the CIA/Mafia plots to assassinate Castro.

When Robert F. Kennedy declared war on these Mafia "patriots", Johnny
Roselli had typically responded with the predictable rant, "Here I am
helping the government helping the country, and that little sonofabitch
[Robert Kennedy] is breaking my balls. Let the little bastard do what he
wants. There isn't anything he can do to me... I got important friends
in important places in Washington that'll cut his water off."

One
of Roselli's "important" friends was Jim Garrison, the District
Attorney of New Orleans. In 1967, according to the CIA, Roselli and
Garrison had a meeting in a Las Vegas hotel room. Garrison claimed that
the allegation about his friendship with Roselli was simply a part of a
CIA disinformation campaign to cover up the truth about the
assassination of John F. Kennedy. A brilliant propagandist, Garrison was
even able to convince oliver Stone that he was "on the trail of the
assassins" when he was in fact deep within the obsession to cover up the
truth about Kennedy's murder.

In retrospect, it is clear and obvious that Jim Garrison and Johnny
Roselli concocted stories to fill the vacuum created by the discredited
Warren Report. Indeed, Lyndon Johnson was so paranoid about allowing the
truth about Kennedy's assassination to surface (and this is the truth)
that he had instructed J.Edgar Hoover to investigate Kennedy
assassination critics who had successfully discredited the Warren
Report. He obviously did not have to instruct Hoover to investigate
Roselli's allegations because he knew that they were false.

And so, J. Edgar Hoover promptly supplied background memoranda on Edward
Epstein, Sylvan Fox, Joachim Joesten, Penn Jones, Mark Lane, Richard
Popkin, Leo Sauvage, and Harold Weisberg, the independent investigators
who had threatened to get to the bottom of the mystery. In retrospect,
it is no surprise that Hoover and Johnson targeted and replaced
legitimate Kennedy assassination critics with bogus allegations about
the murder of Kennedy.

Ironically,
in 1963, immediately after the Kennedy assassination, a desperate
Lyndon Johnson convinced each member of the Warren Commission that their
primary duty was to dispel what he called "dangerous rumors". In 1967
however, when the Warren Commission was discredited, Johnson embraced
these "damgerous rumors" because the fraudulent claim "Castro got
Kennedy" served the obsession to cover up thr truth.

Hoover appointed the General Investigation Division of the FBI to
control the disinformation campaign which involved interviewing
Roselli's lawyer about the allegation that 'Castro got Kennedy'. The GID
was the vehicle which simply provided the opportunity to record rather
than to investigate the authenticity of the claim that Castro was
responsible for the Kennedy assassination. If Hoover was prompted by
legitimate intent, he would have obviously appointed the Domestic
Intelligence Division of the FBI, the unit which was in fact responsible
for investigating possible foreign involvement in the Kennedy
assassination.

Hoover merely appointed the FBI to record a fraudulent rumor and that
betrayed his consistent intent. A former FBI agent and senior official
in the Department of Justice reflects the nature of the Castro
allegation charade when he says: "There are two kinds of FBI interviews.
The first kind is where you simply sit down with a source and come away
with nothing. The second kind is where you really dig into him, check
everything about him and his friends"

FBI Headquarters, J. Edgar Hoover's personal fiefdom, managed
disinformation campaigns about the Kennedy assassination. The agents
that Hoover appointed to serve as the mouthpieces of Roselli's
allegation were interviewed for the Hearings before the Select Committee
on Assassinations, and they said that "they were briefed at FBI
Headquarters prior to the interview but neither could recall the details
of that briefing or who was present." The memory lapse is entirely
understandable.

By far, the most sophisticated and the most influential disinformation
campaign about the Kennedy assassination was unleashed by New Orleans
District Attorney Jim Garrison. A former FBI agent who had embraced the
fraudulent, Hoover claim that organized crime did not exist, Garrison
was evidently a loyal ally. Indeed, as he vigorously denied the provable
existence of organized crime, the empire of New Orleans Mafia boss
Carlos Marcello flourished. The most common characteristic of Garrison's
rhetoric was the identifiable gap between what he said and the truth he
deliberately sought to suppress, and his enlistment in the plot to
publicize disinformation is not surprising.

In retrospect, the simplicity of the fraud that Hoover and Garrison
controlled is astonishing. J. Edgar Hoover investigated Warren
Commission critics and Garrison infiltrated their ranks by pretending to
be one of them. In 1967, Jim Garrison dramatically told the entire
world that he had solved the Kennedy assassination case and that he knew
exactly who was responsible for murdering the President, and the entire
world listened. Lo and behold, the Kennedy assassination messiah had
emerged and the starving press and critics flocked to his side craving
the insight of the only public official who alleged to be in the
possession of the truth about the Kennedy assassination.

Garrison demanded attention and he easily got it through bold and dramatic public assertions like:

"My staff and I solved the assassination weeks ago. I wouldn't say that
if we didn't have evidence beyond a shadow of a doubt. We know the key
individuals, the cities involved, and how it was done."

Jim Garrison ultimately exposed his admiration for anybody who covered
up the truth about the assassination of President John F. Kennedy when
he said;

"I have nothing but respect for the Bureau and feel that if it weren't
for the FBI reports still available in the Commission exhibits, the door
would have been closed forever... The FBI has worked assiduously in
many different areas and gathered facts that have proved of great value
to those interested in uncovering the truth about the assassination."

At the same time, since Kennedy assassination critics had successfully
discredited the Warren Commission, Garrison infiltrated their ranks
through nonsense rhetoric like:

"It's impossible for anyone possessed of reasonable objectivity and a
fair degree of intelligence to read those 26 [Warren Commission] volumes
and not reach the conclusion that the Warren Commission was wrong in
every one of its major conclusions pertaining to the assassination."

Clearly, when Garrison simultaneously claimed that the Warren Commission
investigation was "typically thorough" and that every single conclusion
that the Warren Report promoted was wrong, he betrayed the purpose
behind all the nonsense he deliberately promoted. In his own words, he
said "in an Orwellian sense, perhaps they [assassination conspirators]
come to believe that truth is what contributes to national security and
falsehood is anything detrimental to national security".

Oliver Stone made a hero out of Garrison because the rhetoric of some of
the faces he assumed, was indeed heroic, but the confusion he generated
baffled brilliant historians like Arthur Schlesinger Jr., who said:

"... the premise that Kennedy was preparing to withdraw from Vietnam was
quite correct. And the film raised serious and searching questions
about the Warren Commission. But the theory that they created out of all
this, that because Kennedy was going to get out of Vietnam, the whole
government got together and conspired to murder him, is absolutely
outrageous and terrible. I'm agnostic about whether there was a
conspiracy or not, but one thing I'm absolutely sure of: If there was a
conspiracy, it wasn't Oliver Stone's conspiracy."They say that Richard Nixon
opened the door to China, because he kept it closed long enough to
exploit anti-Communist hysteria. They say that Kennedy started the
Vietnam war, because he was murdered before being granted the
opportunity to satisfy his schedule of total withdrawal, which was
supposed to be completed by 1965, 'win, lose or draw'. So much for what
THEY say...

In recent years, much has been written about a
so-called unbroken
chain of events which stretch from Dallas on the 22nd of November, to
Watergate, the scandal that cost Nixon the presidency. Secrecy and
denial may have blunted the effort to determine the entire truth, but it
has not obliterated the trail from Dallas to Watergate. Unlike the
shock that engulfed most, Richard Nixon and Nixon crony, Watergate
burglar E. Howard Hunt, were both committed to alibi or to the avoidance
of being associated with Dallas Texas, on the day Kennedy was
assassinated. On November 22, 1963, Nixon claimed that he was in New
York, and indeed he was, having left Dallas Texas at 9:05 a.m. about two
hours before Kennedy's arrival. Ironically, Nixon
landed at New York's Idlewild at 1:00 p.m., latter renamed Kennedy
International Airport. The flight offered Nixon the air tight alibi that
a person in-the-know desperately required.
Howard Hunt, who was also reportedly in Dallas on the 22nd of November,
also established an air-tight alibi to prove that he was not in Dallas.
According to Hunt, he was not in his CIA
office in Langley Virginia (why not?), but with friends in Washington
D.C. "And since it is a law of physics that you can't be in two places
at the same time", Hunt boldly asserts, "I was
not in Dallas Texas." Hunt's appeal to the "laws of physics" ignores the
manipulations of covert action crusaders who practice the fraudulent
art of being at more than one place at a time.
Remember the "Oswald double" who has made the task of tracing the real
steps of the real Lee Harvey Oswald, practically impossible? The major
preoccupation of spooks like Howard Hunt is deception, and their
colorful denials have been permanently exposed.In the final analysis the fact that Nixon and Hunt
both secured "air-tight" alibies to account for their whereabouts when
Kennedy was assassinated, is more incriminating than not. Most people
vividly recall exactly what they were doing and where they
were when they heard the tragic news about the Kennedy assassination,
they were not vague, evasive or preoccupied by the need to produce law
of physics-style alibis.The common suspicion that Nixon and Hunt were privy
to the fact that
Kennedy was going to be assassinated, is well founded. Nixon and Hunt
were violent anti-Communist crusaders with a penchant for plotting the
assassination of "foreign" leaders and for
perverting democratic principles. Moreover, Hunt and Nixon were two of
the earliest and most persistent advocates who promoted assassination
plots against Castro, and when Kennedy did not
enthusiastically endorse anti-Castro plots or a military invasion of
Cuba, they were invariably obsessed by the perceived need to get rid of
him as well. On November 22, 1963, quoted in the New
York Times after having made a timely evacuation from Dallas, Richard
Nixon publicly recognized his anti-Kennedy zeal through the bold
assertion: "I am going to
work as hard as I can to get the Kennedys out of there. We can't afford
four more years of that kind of administration."While Nixon publicly exposed his commitment to get rid of the
Kennedys, he did not say how he planned to accomplish his goal.
At any rate, the fact that Nixon did not plan to defeat the
Kennedys through legitimate political elections is quite obvious.
In 1963, Nixon was the most popular Republican in the nation, yet
despite the declared intention "to get the Kennedys out of there", he refused to run for the
presidency until a shadowy committee to elect Richard Nixon was
created in 1967. Political pundits, experts at creating a theory
which matches the limit of public awareness, have repeatedly
claimed that Nixon's decision not to run in 1964 was a brilliant
tactical exploit. It was, they claim, foolish to challenge the
unbeatable wave of popularity that brought Johnson a landslide
victory in 1964. And so, it is popularly asserted, Richard Nixon,
the brilliant statesman, staged one of the greatest political
comebacks in American history, when he became the President in
1968. It is indeed a convenient theory but it ignores the fact
that Nixon was not a typical politician but a man immersed in the
shadowy world of secret politics. The fact that Nixon was largely
a low key behind-the-scenes political operator until the Kennedys
were assassinated, suggests that the so-called Nixon comeback was
anything but legitimate. Politics, in the Nixon tradition was
about behind-the-scenes plotting to destroy political enemies, it
was not about fair play elections. And if Nixon did not aim for
the presidency in 1964, it was not because he thought he couldn't
win, but because the plotting of political cronies like J. Edgar
Hoover precluded the possibility of a Nixon presidency in 1964.
John Ehrlichman, Nixon's former counsel, made that quite evident
when he said:

Hoover and Nixon had kept in touch during all the years Nixon
was out of office. Rose Mary Woods had been Hoover's Nixon
contact for the exchange of information and advice between them.
Whenever Nixon travelled abroad as a private citizen, the FBI
agents who posed as "legal attaches" in U.S. embassies were
instructed by Hoover to look after Nixon. Hoover fed Nixon
information during those years via Cartha De Loach, and through
Lou Nichols, a retired Bureau assistant director who had become
a distillery executive. But Hoover was more than a source of
information -he was a political advisor to whom Nixon listened.
(Witness to Power; The Nixon Years, 1982, Simon & Schuster, New
York p.156-7)

And so, despite the popular belief that shrewd political acumen
kept Nixon out of the White House race in 1964, the evidence
suggests that Hoover dictated the Nixon decision to "wait it
out".
Indeed, pre-Kennedy assassination knowledge probably convinced
Nixon to refrain from opposing Johnson in 1968. Clearly, evidence
which strongly suggests that Nixon had foreknowledge about the
Kennedy assassination is compelling. On November 21 1963, J.Edgar
Hoover and Richard Nixon were at the home of wealthy oil baron
Clint Murchison, in Dallas Texas. (p.14 High Treason) Murchison
was a wealthy Texan who owned everything from the Dallas Cowboys
to Henry Holt and Company, the publishing house that promoted the
propaganda that Hoover published, to the racetrack where Hoover
placed $100 bets, to the luxurious Del Charro Motel in
California, where Hoover vacationed annually free of charge, to
oil-gas interests... Murchison's empire, it appeared, was
tailor-made to suit the interests of J. Edgar Hoover. The
alliance between Hoover and Murchison was indeed like an ideal
circle of corruption. Murchison, the recipient of huge loans from
Teamster's pension funds, was evidently well served by the
"politically correct" Teamster's union, whose administration was
shaped by Hoover's capacity to blacklist the so-called
un-Americans within. And the "dissent-free" Teamsters were at
liberty to abuse pension funds at will. Business associates like
Mafia crime boss Carlos Marcello gave Murchison additional
"empire-building" clout. (mafia kingfish, p312) Travelling in a circle which linked the Mafia, the
Director of
the FBI, Lyndon Johnson and ultra-Conservative wealthy Texan
reactionaries who vilified Kennedy because he was supposedly soft
on Communism, Richard Nixon was surrounded by people who were
enthusiastic about supporting a plot to murder the President. In
particular, the fact that Richard Nixon spent the eve of the
assassination in Dallas Texas with Johnson and Hoover cronies,
the oil-rich Murchisons, goes a very long way in casting a dark
cloud of suspicion towards the arch-Republican Nixon, who
virtually assured a Democratic landslide victory by not
challenging Johnson in 1964. Like the ultra-Conservative
Murchison, who provided financial support to the so-called
liberal, Lyndon Johnson, Nixon secretly supported the Democrats,
not the Republicans. Kennedy assassination plotters had
evidently created "politically peculiar" secret alliances that
escaped the notice of political pundits who promoted "Nixon the
brilliant political comeback strategist" theories, to account for
Nixon's conspicuous absence in 1964, and his "miraculous" return
in 1968. What the pundits failed to explore is the probability
that Richard Nixon did not run in 1964 in order to help Lyndon
Johnson shed the scornful claim that he was the "accidental"
President. Moreover, it is also safe to assume that Richard Nixon did
not oppose the candidacy of Lyndon Johnson because he was absolutely
certain that Johnson would reverse the foreign policy course of action
that Kennedy had charted. If that was not clearly the case, there is no
way that Nixon would have tolerated the "landslide mandate" that fell
into Johnson's lap, through the decision to allow
the "trigger happy" Barry Goldwater, to lead the Republicans.
Preoccupied by the need to cover up the truth about the Kennedy assassination, Lyndon Johnson publicly embraced the "let us
continue" pledge, and with Nixon's undeclared support, "landslide
Johnson" privately promoted the commitment "to begin", not where
Kennedy had left off, but where Johnson and Nixon wanted to go.
And so, like the convoluted plot of a Shakespearean play, the
Nixon-assisted Lyndon Johnson landslide foreshadowed the dramatic
new beginning in Vietnam -the introduction of the combat
divisions that Kennedy had vigorously opposed. The popular misconception that Johnson and Nixon
inherited the Vietnam war reflects a gross distortion maintained
by obsessive secrecy and ignorant "punditeering". In actual fact,
Nixon, Johnson, Hoover and the like, "engineered" the Vietnam war.
To be sure, since the man was murdered, the propaganda mill repeatedlly churns out the
fraud that Cold Warrior John F. Kennedy started the Vietnam War. We do not have the
time nor the inclination to challenge 27 years of rhetoric, ignorance and fraud. We’ll just
tell you what John F. Kennedy said, and you can make up your own mind. John F.
Kennedy said: "In 1965 I’ll become one of the most unpopular Presidents in history. I’ll be
damned everywhere as a Communist appeaser. But I don’t care. If I tried to pull out
completely now from Vietnam, we would have another Joe McCarthy red scare on our
hands, but I can do it after I’m reelected. So we had better make damned sure that I am
reelected".
[POSTSCRIPT] The "textbook/cloned" historians that CNN routinely parades
over the air, thrive on the statistical claim that Eisenhower kept
involvement in Vietnam low whereas Kennedy escalated America's
commitment to over 16,000. But a simple statistical analysis, of the
sort that McNamara used to project optimism is absolutely meaningless.
Colonel Fletcher Prouty, former liaison between the CIA and the
Pentagon, explains the meaningless "numbers game" that superficial
analysts use to distort history. According to Colonel Prouty:
Don't get trapped into the numbers game. JFK had about 16,000 US
military in Vietnam. He emphasized that they were not in combat slots,
but this does not count all the guys with the CIA, etc... But this was
true of the Eisenhower days. I and my whole squadron were in and out of
Vietnam all the time in 1952, 1953 and 1954 and I am sure that the
people who followed me in that job were there even more. My brother was
with a group in Hanoi in 1954 and 1955. We had alot of guys helping at
Dien Bien Phu ...aerial work mostly. We had naval units and plenty of
army people. On top of that, the CIA had large units from Korea, Taiwan
and the Philippines in Vietnam and they had been there a long time. They
began to go with Lansdale in '54. It is not the numbers that matter. It
is what the President intended. JFK let things roll along...things that
had been started by Eisenhower, and some of them grew. But he was going
to get out of there by 1965 and wanted a record of bringing men home
during 1963 and 1964. When I was working on NSAM 263 [Taylor/McNamara
Report] I was very well briefed on this plan of Kennedy's. He was
getting out and he wanted that on the record. That is why he was shot.
There are no shortage of references citing Kennedy's commitment to pull
out of Vietnam by 1965. As a matter of fact, Kennedy was so absolutely
committed to withdrawal, he actually believed that anyone who suggested
otherwise was a blundering idiot. In his own words, Kennedy defined the
political and the moral challenges he faced over the war in Vietnam when
he said:

If I tried to pull out completely now from Vietnam, we would have
another Joe McCarthy red scare on our hands, but I can do it after I am
reelected... In 1965, I'll become one of the most unpopular Presidents
in history. I'll be damned everywhere, but I don't care.

To be sure, partisan and ideological bickering has obscured this simple,
undeniable fact, and Canadians are probably in the best position to
resolve the controversial quagmire of hostile disagreement. In
particular, when Kennedy asked Canadian Prime Minister Pearson about
what he would do in Vietnam, Pearson told him that he would pull out and
Kennedy's reply did not leave any room to doubt his firm intentions.
Indeed, when Prime Minister Pearson advised him to pullout, Kennedy
said, "Any damn fool knows that. The question is, how?" And so, in the
final analysis, if Kennedy was not assassinated, "any damn fool knows"
that win, draw or lose, Kennedy would have ended America's involvement
in the Vietnam war by 1965 as promised, and Lyndon Johnson would have
been denied the opportunity to reverse his plans.
And that is the ultimate tragedy of the Kennedy assassination. As
President, we granted him the opportunity to save the world by averting
nuclear war during the Cuban Missile Crisis, but we denied him the
opportunity to spare us the grief over Vietnam. And that is what makes
John F. Kennedy the greatest and the most underestimated President in
world history. To be sure, common ignorance has made us retreat in the
comfort of "we will never know what might have been", but we know the
man, we understand his leadership qualities, we know what he had
planned, and we know that it would have made all the difference in the
world. It is no longers safe to hide behind ignorance.
John F. Kennedy was determined to save America from the pain of the
Vietnam quagmire and he was willing to pay any price to do it. Does
anybody miss the stark contrast between the myth that Johnson picked up
where Kennedy left off and the reality that he was murdered to
facilitate the ignorant crusade that claimed over 35,000 American lives?

Richard Nixon's Secret Ties to the Mafia

During the height of the Watergate scandal, Atty. Gen. John Mitchell's wife,
Martha, sounded one of the first alarms, telling a reporter, ''Nixon is involved
with the Mafia. The Mafia was involved in his election.'' White House officials privately urged other reporters to treat any anti-Nixon
comments by Martha as the ravings of a drunken crackpot.Time, however, has proved Mrs. Mitchell right.Richard Nixon's earliest campaign manager and political advisor was Murray
Chotiner, a chubby lawyer who specialized in defending members of the Mafia and
who enjoyed dressing like them too, in a wardrobe highlighted by monogrammed
white-on-white dress shirts and silk ties with jeweled stickpins. The monograms
said MMC, because – perhaps to seem more impressive – he billed himself as
Murray M. Chotiner, though, in reality, he lacked a middle name. In this cigar chomping, wheeler-dealer, Nixon had found what future Nixon
aide Len Garment called ''his Machiavelli – a hardheaded exponent of the campaign
philosophy that politics is war.''When Nixon went on to the White House, both as vice president, and later as
president, he took Chotiner with him as a key behind-the-scenes advisor – and
for good reason. By the time he became president in 1969, thanks in large part
to Murray Chotiner's contacts with such shady figures as Mafia-connected labor
leader Jimmy Hoffa, New Orleans Mafia boss Carlos Marcello, and Los Angeles
gangster Mickey Cohen, Richard Nixon had been on the giving and receiving end of
major underworld favors for more than two decades. In his first political foray – a successful 1946 race for Congress as a
strong anti-Communist from southern California – Nixon received a $5,000
contribution from Cohen plus free office space for a ''Nixon for Congress''
headquarters in one of Mickey Cohen's buildings.And there was more to come.In 1950, at Chotiner's request, Cohen set up a fund-raising dinner for Nixon
at the Knickerbocker Hotel in Los Angeles. The affair took in $75,000 to help
Nixon go on and defeat Sen. Helen Gahagan Douglas, whom he had portrayed as a
Communist sympathizer – ''pink right down to her underwear.''''Everyone from around here that was on the pad naturally had to go,'' Cohen
himself later recalled, looking back on the Knickerbocker dinner, ''… It was all
gamblers from Vegas, all gambling money. There wasn't a legitimate person in the
room.'' The mobster said Nixon addressed the dinner after Cohen told the crowd
the exits would be closed until the whole $75,000 quota was met. They were. And
it was.Cohen has said his support of Nixon was ordered by ''the proper persons from
back East,'' meaning the founders of the national Syndicate, Frank Costello and
Meyer Lansky. Why would Meyer Lansky become a big fan of Richard Nixon? Senate
crime investigator Walter Sheridan offered this opinion: ''If you were Meyer, who
would you invest your money in? Some politician named Clams Linguini? Or a nice
Protestant boy from Whittier, California?'' Lansky was considered the Mafia's financial genius. Known as ''The Little Man''
because he was barely five feet tall, Lansky developed Cuba for the Mob during
the dictatorship of Fulgencio Batista, when Havana was ''The Latin Las Vegas.''
Under its tall, swaying palms, gambling, prostitution and drug trafficking
netted the U.S. Syndicate more than $100-million-a-year – even after handsome
payoffs to Batista.In the mid-‘50s, Batista designated Lansky the unofficial czar of gambling in
Havana. This was so Batista could stop some Mob-run casinos from using doctored
games of chance to cheat tourists. A shrewd, master manipulator whose specialty
was gambling, Lansky was also known among mobsters as honest. It wasn't
necessary to rig the gambling tables to make boatloads of bucks. Lansky directed
all casino operators to ''clean up, or get out.''Lansky, in turn, was very generous with the Cuban dictator. As former Lansky
associate Joseph Varon has said: ''I know every time Myer went to Cuba he would
bring a briefcase with at least $100,000 (for Batista). So Batista welcomed him
with open arms, and the two men really developed such an affection for each
other. Batista really loved him. I guess I'd love him too if he gave me $100,000
every time I saw him.''Lansky saw to it that his friends were generous to Batista too. In February
1955, Vice President Richard Nixon traveled to Havana to embrace Batista at the
despot's lavish private palace, praise ''the competence and stability'' of his
regime, award him a medal of honor, and compare him with Abraham Lincoln. Nixon
hailed Batista's Cuba as a land that ''shares with us the same democratic ideals
of peace, freedom and the dignity of man.''When he returned to Washington, the vice president reported to the cabinet
that Batista was ''a very remarkable man … older and wiser … desirous of doing a
good job for Cuba rather than Batista … concerned about social progress…'' And
Nixon reported that Batista had vowed to ''deal with the Commies.''What Nixon omitted from his report was the Batista-Lansky connection, the
rampant government corruption under Batista – and the extreme poverty of most
Cubans. The American vice president also ignored Batista's suspension of
constitutional guarantees, his dissolution of the country's political parties,
and his use of the police and army to murder political opponents. Twenty
thousand Cubans reportedly died at the hands of Batista's thugs. Under Batista, Cuba was the decadent playground of the American elite. Havana
was its sin city paradise – where you could gamble at luxurious casinos, bet the
horses, play the lottery, and party with the some of best prostitutes, rum,
cocaine, heroin and marijuana in the Western Hemisphere. Should you have been in
the mood, you could also have watched ''an exhibition of sexual bestiality that
would have shocked Caligula,'' according to Richard Reinhart in an article he
wrote for American Heritage in 1995 entitled ''Cuba Libre.''Cuba was only a one-hour flight away from the United States. And there were
80 tourist flights-a-week from Miami to Havana, at a cost of $40, round trip.Three Syndicate gamblers from Cleveland — including Morris ''Moe'' Dalitz, a
friend of Nixon's best buddy Bebe Rebozo — were part owners of Lansky's
glittering Hotel Nacional in Havana. In fact, during the Batista regime, as
recalled by Mafia hit man Angelo ''Gyp'' DeCarlo, ''The Mob had a piece of every
joint down there. There wasn't one joint they didn't have a piece of.'' In a noteworthy reversal of that situation, the Cuban dictator owned part of
at least one Mob-run gambling operation in the United States. Batista was
partners with New Orleans godfather and future Nixon benefactor Carlos Marcello
of a casino in Jefferson Parish, Louisiana called ''The Beverly Club.'' Another Rebozo associate, Tampa godfather Santos Trafficante, was the
undisputed gambling king of Havana. Trafficante owned substantial interests in
the San Souci – a nightclub and casino where fellow gangster Johnny Roselli had
a management role.The relationship between Nixon and Rebozo tightened in Cuba in the early
‘50s, according to historian Anthony Summers, when Nixon was gambling very
heavily, and Bebe covered Nixon's losses – possibly as much as $50,000. Most of
Nixon's gambling took place at Lansky's Hotel Nacional. Lansky rolled out the
royal treatment for Nixon, who stayed in the Presidential Suite on the owner's
tab.As far back as 1951, Bebe Rebozo – the man who bailed out Nixon at the
Nacional – had been involved with Lansky in illegal gambling rackets in parts of
Miami, Hallandale, and Ft. Lauderdale, Fla. Former crime investigator Jack
Clarke recently disclosed those operations, adding that Rebozo was pointed out
to him, back then, as ''one of Lansky's people …When I checked the name with the
Miami police, they said he was an entrepreneur and a gambler and that he was
very close to Meyer.'' A bachelor, Rebozo was short, swarthy, well dressed and ingratiatingly glib.
The American-born Cuban had risen from airline steward to wealthy Florida banker
and land speculator. Many Nixon biographers say Richard Danner, a former FBI agent gone bad,
introduced Nixon to Rebozo in 1951. Danner was the city manager of Miami Beach
when it was controlled by the Mob. Danner eventually became a top aide to
Nixon's financial angel, eccentric billionaire Howard Hughes. And, years later,
during the final act of the Watergate scandal, Danner delivered a $100,000
under-the–table donation from Hughes to President Nixon. Nixon and Rebozo hit it off almost immediately. Their mutual friend, Sen.
George Smathers of Florida, once said: ''I don't want to say that Bebe's level of
liking Nixon increased as Nixon's (political) position increased, but it had a
lot to do with it.''The two men were almost inseparable from then on. Rebozo was there to lend
moral as well as financial support to his idol through Nixon's many political
ups and downs. He was there in Florida in 1952 when Nixon celebrated his
election to the vice presidency; Rebozo was in Los Angeles in 1960 when Nixon
got word that Sen. John Kennedy had edged him out for the presidency; he
comforted Nixon after his 1962 defeat for California governor; and Rebozo and
Nixon drank and sunbathed together in Key Biscayne after Nixon's political
dreams came true and he won the 1968 presidential election. During Nixon's White
House years, rough estimates show Rebozo was at Nixon's side one out of every 10
days. Known as ''Uncle Bebe'' to Nixon's two children, Trisha and Julie, Rebozo
frequently bought the girls – and Nixon's wife Pat – expensive gifts. He
purchased a house in the suburbs for Julie after she married David Eisenhower.
The Saturday Evening Post, in a March 1987 article, put the price
at $137,000. Rebozo came in and out of the White House as he pleased, without being logged
in by the Secret Service. Though he had no government job, Rebozo had his own
private office and phone number in the executive mansion. When he travelled on
Air Force One, which was frequently, Bebe donned a blue flight jacket bearing
the Presidential Seal and his name. (Nixon's own flight jacket was inscribed
''The President'' – as though no one would recognize that fact by just looking at
him.) Rebozo's organized crime connections were solid. For one, he had both legal
and financial ties with ''Big Al'' Polizzi, a Cleveland gangster and drug kingpin.
Rebozo built an elaborate shopping center in Miami, to be leased to members of
the rightwing Cuban exile community, and he let out the contracting bid to Big
Al, a convicted black marketer described by the Federal Bureau of Narcotics as
''one of the most influential members of the underworld in the United States.''Nixon and Rebozo bought Florida lots on upscale Key Biscayne, getting bargain
rates from Donald Berg, a Mafia-connected Rebozo business partner. The Secret
Service eventually advised Nixon to stop associating with Berg. The lender for
one of Nixon's properties was Arthur Desser, who consorted with both Teamsters
President Jimmy Hoffa and mobster Meyer Lansky. Nixon and Rebozo were friends of James Crosby, the chairman of a firm
repeatedly linked to top mobsters, and Rebozo's Key Biscayne Bank was a
suspected pipeline for Mob money skimmed from Crosby's casino in the Bahamas. By
the 1960s, FBI agents keeping track of the Mafia had identified Nixon's
Cuban-American pal as a ''non-member associate of organized crime figures.''Former Mafia consigliere Bill Bonanno, the son of legendary New York
godfather Joe Bonanno, asserts that Nixon ''would never have gotten anywhere''
without his old Mob allegiances. And he reports that — through Rebozo — Nixon
''did business for years with people in (Florida Mafia boss Santos) Trafficante's
Family, profiting from real estate deals, arranging for casino licensing, covert
funding for anti-Castro activities, and so forth.'' If friendships enabled Nixon to craft links with the Mafia, so did hatred.
Teamsters union leader Jimmy Hoffa hated John and Robert Kennedy as much as
Nixon did. Robert Kennedy had been trying to put Hoffa in jail since 1956, when
RFK was staff counsel for a Senate probe into the Mob's influence on the labor
movement. In a 1960 book, Robert Kennedy said, ''No group better fits the
prototype of the old Al Capone syndicate than Jimmy Hoffa and some of his
lieutenants.''Because he shared a common enemy with Nixon, Hoffa and his two million-member
union backed Vice President Nixon against Sen. John Kennedy in the 1960
election, and did so with more than just a get-out-the-vote campaign. Edward
Partin, a Louisiana Teamster official and later government informant, revealed
that Hoffa met with New Orleans godfather Carlos Marcello to secretly fund the
Nixon campaign. Partin told Mob expert Dan Moldea: ''I was right there, listening
to the conversation. Marcello had a suitcase filled with $500,000 cash which was
going to Nixon ... (Another $500,000 contribution) was coming from Mob boys in
New Jersey and Florida.'' Hoffa himself served as Nixon's bagman.The Hoffa-Marcello meeting took place in New Orleans on Sept. 26, 1960, and
has been verified by William Sullivan, a former top FBI official.Nixon lost the 1960 election, and Hoffa – thanks to Atty. Gen. Robert Kennedy
– soon wound up in prison for jury tampering and looting the union's pension
funds of almost $2 million. But the Nixon-Hoffa connection was strong enough to
last at least until Dec. 23, 1971 when, as president, Nixon gave Hoffa an
executive grant of clemency and sprung him from prison. The action allowed Hoffa
to serve just five years of a 13-year sentence.Hoffa evidently bought his way out. In 1996, Teamsters expert William Bastone
disclosed that James P. (''Junior'') Hoffa and racketeer Allen Dorfman ''delivered
$300,000 ''in a black valise'' to a Washington hotel to help secure the release of
Hoffa's father'' from the pen. The name of the bagman on the receiving end of the
transaction is redacted from legal documents filed in a court case. Bastone said
the claim is based on ''FBI reports reflecting contacts with (former Teamster
boss Jackie) Presser in 1971.''In a recently released FBI memo confirming this, an informant details a
$300,000 Mob payoff to the Nixon White House ''to guarantee the release of Jimmy
Hoffa from the Federal penitentiary.''Breaking from clemency custom, Nixon did not consult the judge who had
sentenced Hoffa. Nor did he pay any mind to the U.S. Parole Board, which had
unanimously voted three times in two years to reject Hoffa's appeals for
release. The board had been warned by the Justice Department that Hoffa was
Mob-connected. Long-time Nixon operative Chotiner eventually admitted
interceding to get Hoffa paroled. ''I did it,'' he told columnist Jack Anderson in
1973, ''I make no apologies for it. And frankly I'm proud of it.''At the time, The New York Times called the clemency a ''pivotal element
in the strange love affair between the (Nixon) administration and the
two-million-member truck union, ousted from the rest of the labor movement in
1957 for racketeer domination.''As one example of President Nixon's ''strange love affair'' with the Teamsters,
in a May 5, 1971 Oval Office conversation, Nixon and his chief of staff Bob
Haldeman pondered a little favor they knew the union would be happy to carry out
against anti-war demonstrators:

Haldeman: What (Nixon aide Charles) Colson's gonna do on it, and I
suggested he do, and I think they can get a, away with this . . . do it
with the Teamsters. Just ask them to dig up those, their eight thugs.President: Yeah.Haldeman: Just call, call, uh, what's his name.President: Fitzsimmons.Haldeman: Is trying to get, play our game anyway. Is just, just tell
Fitzsimmons...President: They, they've got guys who'll go in and knock their heads off.Haldeman: Sure. Murderers!

Veteran Mafia bigwig Bill Bonanno describes Nixon's clemency for Hoffa as ''a
gesture, if ever there was one, of the national power (the Mob) once enjoyed.''President Nixon did put one restriction on Hoffa's freedom: Hoffa could never
again, directly or indirectly, manage any union. This decision, too, was the
result of a financial incentive – from another wing of the Mafia. The
restriction was reputedly bought by a $500,000 contribution to the Nixon
campaign by New Jersey Teamster leader Anthony Provenzano –''Tony Pro'' – the head
of the notorious Provenzano family, which, a House panel found in 1999, had for
years dominated Teamsters New Jersey Local 560.The Provenzanos, who were linked to the Genovese crime family, used Local 560
to carry out a full range of criminal activities, including murder, extortion,
loan sharking, kickbacks, hijacking, and gambling.During the Nixon administration, pressure from Washington eased off on other
Mafia leaders, too, such as Chicago godfather Sam Giancana; long-standing
deportation proceedings against CIA-connected mobster Johnny Roselli were
dropped. Without going into specifics, lawyers from Nixon's Justice Department
explained in court that Roselli had performed ''valuable services to the national
security.'' A Giancana henchman, Roselli was an important contact man in the CIA-Mafia
assassination plots against Cuban leader Fidel Castro. (Roselli and Dallas
gangster Jack Ruby – the killer of JFK assassination suspect Lee Harvey Oswald –
are reported to have met in hotels in Miami during the months before the JFK
assassination.)Roselli was also apparently acquainted with longtime Nixon associate CIA
agent E. Howard Hunt. Nixon and Hunt were secretly top planners of the
assassination plots on Castro when Nixon was vice president. And later, Roselli
and Hunt are reported to have been co-conspirators in the 1961
assassination-by-ambush of Rafael Trujillo, dictator of the Dominican Republic.
In the ‘70s, a Senate committee established that the CIA had supplied the
weapons used against Trujillo. In 1976, Cygne, a Paris publication,
quoted former Trujillo bodyguard L. Gonzales-Mata as saying that Roselli and
Hunt arrived in the Dominican Republic in March 1971 to assist in plots against
Trujillo.Gonzalez-Mata described Hunt as ''a specialist'' with the CIA and Roselli as ''a
friend of Batista'' who was operating on orders from both the CIA and the Mafia.Mafia TrialsThe Nixon administration intervened on the side of Mafia figures in at least
20 trials, mostly for the ostensible purpose of protecting CIA ''sources and
methods.'' Nixon even went so far as to order the Justice Department to halt using the
words ''Mafia'' and ''Cosa Nostra'' to describe organized crime. The President was
roundly applauded when he boasted about his order at a private 1971 Oval Office
meeting with some 40 members of the Supreme Council of the Sons of Italy. The
group's Supreme Venerable, Americo Cortese, thanked Nixon for his moral
leadership, declaring, ''You are our terrestrial god.''As president, Nixon also pardoned Angelo ''Gyp'' DeCarlo, described by the FBI
as a ''methodical gangland executioner.'' Supposedly terminally ill, DeCarlo was
freed after serving less than two years of a 12-year sentence for extortion.
Soon afterward, Newsweek reported the mobster was not too ill to be ''back
at his old rackets, boasting that his connections with (singer Frank) Sinatra
freed him.''Sinatra had been ousted from JFK's social circle when the Kennedy Justice
Department reported to the President that the singer had wide-ranging dealings
and friendships with major mobsters. But the Nixon White House disregarded
similar reports, and Sinatra went on to become fast friends with both Nixon and
his corrupt vice president, Spiro Agnew. In April 1973, at Nixon's request, Sinatra came out of retirement to sing at
a White House state dinner for Italian President Giulio Andreotti. On the night
of the dinner, the president compared Sinatra to the Washington Monument – ''The
Top.''In the summer of 1973, The New York Times reported that Nixon pardoned
DeCarlo as a result of Sinatra's intervention with Agnew. The newspaper said the
details were worked out by Agnew aide Peter Malatesta and Nixon counsel John
Dean. The release reportedly followed an ''unrecorded contribution'' of $100,000
in cash and another contribution of $50,000 forwarded by Sinatra by to an
unnamed Nixon campaign official.FBI files released after Sinatra's 1998 death seem to confirm this and
provide fresh details. An internal bureau memo of May 24, 1973, describes
Sinatra as ''a close friend of Angelo DeCarlo of long standing.'' It says that in
April 1972, DeCarlo asked singer Frankie Valli of ''My Eyes Adored You'' and ''Big
Girls Don't Cry'' fame (when Valli was performing at the Atlanta Federal
Penitentiary) to contact Sinatra and have him intercede with Agnew for DeCarlo's
release. Eventually, the memo continues, Sinatra ''allegedly turned over $100,000 cash
to (Nixon campaign finance chairman) Maurice Stans as an unrecorded
contribution.'' Vice presidential aide Peter Maletesta ''allegedly contacted
former Presidential Counsel John Dean and got him to make the necessary
arrangements to forward the request (for a presidential pardon) to the Justice
Department.'' Sinatra is said to have then made a $50,000 contribution to the
president's campaign fund. And, the memo reports, ''DeCarlo's release followed.''
Frank Sinatra's Mob ties go back at least as far as Nixon's. In 1947, the
singer was photographed with Lucky Luciano and other mobsters in Cuba. The photo
led syndicated columnist Robert Ruark to write three columns about Sinatra and
the Mafia. The first was titled ''Shame Sinatra.''The Nixon administration's generosity toward top Mob and Teamsters officials
was truly remarkable: To cite just a few other examples:

A few months after trouncing Sen. George McGovern in 1972, Nixon secretly
entertained Teamsters chief Frank Fitzsimmons in a private room at the White
House. Atty. Gen. Richard Kleindienst was summoned to the session ''and
ordered by Nixon to review all the Teamsters investigations at the Justice
Department and to make certain that Fitzsimmons and his cronies weren't hurt
by the probes.''

In April 1973, The New York Times disclosed that FBI wiretaps had
uncovered a massive scheme to establish a national health plan for the
Teamsters – with pension fund members and top mobsters playing crucial roles
… and getting lucrative kickbacks. Yet Kleindienst rejected the FBI's plan
to continue taps related to the scheme. The chief schemers behind the
proposed rip-off had included Fitzsimmons and Teamsters pension fund
consultant Allen ''Red'' Dorfman.

From 1969 through 1973, more than one-half of the Justice Department's
1,600 indictments in organized crime cases were tossed out because of
''improper procedures'' followed by Atty. Gen. John Mitchell in obtaining
court-approved authorization for wiretaps.

During Nixon's administration, the Treasury Department declared a
moratorium on $1.3-million in back taxes owed by former Teamsters president
Dave Beck.

In May 1973, the Oakland Tribune reported that Nixon aide Murray
Chotiner had interceded in a federal probe of Teamsters involvement in a
major Beverly Hills real estate scandal. As a result, the investigation
ended with the indictment of only three men. One of the three — Leonard
Bursten — a former director of the shady Miami National Bank, and a close
friend of Jimmy Hoffa, had his 15-year prison sentence reduced to probation.

In June 1973, ex-Nixon aide John Dean revealed to the Senate Watergate
Committee that Cal Kovens, a leading Florida Teamsters official, had won an
early release from federal prison in 1972 through the efforts of Nixon aide
Charles Colson, Bebe Rebozo, and former Florida Sen. George Smathers.
Shortly after his release, Kovens contributed $50,000 to Nixon's re-election
effort.

By contrast, the Kennedy administration's war on organized crime was highly
effective: indictments against mobsters rose from zero to 683; and the number of
defendants convicted went from zero to 619.There's evidence Nixon later made an effort to cash in on the ''good deeds'' he
had performed for his Mafia friends. Records reveal that FBI agents suspected
the Nixon White House of soliciting $1 million from the Teamsters to pay hush
money to the Watergate burglars. In fact, in early 1973 – when the Watergate cover-up was coming apart at the
seams – aide John Dean told the president that $1 million might be needed to
keep the burglary team silent. Nixon responded, ''We could get that … you could
get a million dollars. You could get it in cash, I know where it could be
gotten.''When Dean observed that money laundering ''is the type of thing Mafia people
can do,'' Nixon calmly answered: ''Maybe it takes a gang to do that.''It is suspected that most of the Watergate ''hush money'' distributed to E.
Howard Hunt – who, during Watergate, was Nixon's secret chief spy – and other
members of the burglary team came from Rebozo and other shadowy Nixon pals like
Tony Provenzano, Jimmy Hoffa, Howard Hughes, Carlos Marcello, Santos
Trafficante, Meyer Lansky, and Lansky buddy John Alessio.An ex-con, Alessio, the gambling king of San Diego, was one of the few guests
at Nixon's New York hotel suite on election night, 1968. Alessio was rubbing
elbows with Nixon and his family at a very special occasion – despite a mid-‘60s
conviction for skimming millions of dollars from San Diego's racetrack revenues.
On May 20, 1972 an anxious Richard Nixon picked up the Oval Office phone and
called Anthony Provenzano's top henchman, Joseph Trerotola, a key Teamsters
union power broker in his own right. Perhaps the President had some laundered
cash in mind to help keep the Watergate burglars quiet about their White House
ties. We will never know for sure why Tony Pro's right-hand man was one of the
first people Nixon called after the burglary. Scholars who try to listen to that
recently released one-minute-long conversation at the National Archives will
find that the tape has been totally erased. The Archives believes the tape was
probably erased by mistake by Secret Service overseers of Nixon's taping system.
But an Archives spokesman acknowledges that Nixon – or someone else – might
possibly have tampered with the Nixon-Trerotola tape.A short time before phoning the mobster, Nixon had an Oval Office
conversation about Watergate with his chief of staff, Bob Haldeman. This is the
famous tape that contains an 18 and one-half minute erasure. The president's
secretary, Rose Mary Woods, publicly took the fall for the ''gap'' in the
Nixon-Haldeman tape, saying she might have accidentally made the erasure. Many
historians suspect the president was the Eraser-in-Chief. Back then, the
strangest explanation of all came from Nixon aide Alexander Haig, who publicly
blamed a ''sinister force.'' Behind closed doors, however, Haig told Watergate
Special Prosecutor Leon Jaworski that the tape in question had been ''screwed
with.'' At first, Nixon went along with ''the secretary did it'' story. But he
later blamed one of his Watergate lawyers, Fred Buzhardt – after Buzhardt's
death. After Nixon left office in August 1974 to avoid being impeached by Congress
for the illegal activities he supervised and concealed during the Watergate
scandal, he spent more than a year brooding in self-exile at his walled estate
in San Clemente, Calif. The very first post-resignation invitation the disgraced
ex-president accepted was from his Teamsters buddies. On Oct. 9, 1975, he played
golf at La Costa, a Mob-owned California resort with Teamsters chief Frank
Fitzsimmons and other top union officials. Among those who attended a post-golf
game party for Nixon were Provenzano, Dorfman, and the union's executive
secretary, Murray (''Dusty'') Miller.Tony Pro would later die in prison, a convicted killer. A key Mob-Teamster
financial coordinator, Dorfman was later murdered gangland-style. Murray ''Dusty''
Miller was the man, records show, gangster Jack Ruby had telephoned several days
before Ruby murdered Lee Harvey Oswald in Dallas in November 1963.In July 1975, Jimmy Hoffa vanished in a Detroit suburb, and his body has
never been found. Some federal investigators believe he was shot to death after
being lured to a reconciliation meeting with Provenzano, who never showed up. On
at least two occasions, Tony Pro had threatened to kill Hoffa and kidnap his
children. Investigators theorize Hoffa's body was then taken away by truck,
stuffed into a fifty-gallon drum, then crushed and smelted.Why does the Mafia sometimes dispose of the body of a hit victim? For one
thing, if there's no corpse, it's harder to find and convict the killer or
killers. For another, as Robert Kennedy Mob-fighter Ronald Goldfarb observes,
disposal occurs when the Mob ''wants to add shame and disgrace to a murder by
embarrassing the victim's family who are left with no body or funeral, no final
end.'' Jimmy Hoffa was declared legally dead in 1982.
Newly released FBI documents show that, in 1978, federal investigators sought
to force former President Nixon and Teamster boss Fitzsimmons to testify about
events surrounding Hoffa's disappearance. The investigators concluded that such
testimony offered the last, best chance of solving the Hoffa mystery. But they
accused top Justice Department officials of derailing their efforts to call the
two men before a Detroit grand jury. The records also reveal that FBI agents suspected the Nixon White House of
soliciting $1 million from the Teamsters to keep the Watergate burglars silent.The disclosures are detailed in more than 2,000 pages of previously secret
FBI documents — obtained by the Detroit Free Press through a Freedom of
Information lawsuit. They show that Fitzsimmons had actually been a government
informant on an unspecified matter from 1972 to 1974. Could Fitzsimmons's
cooperation in that case have persuaded the Justice Department to turn thumbs
down on the grand jury idea?The records don't say. But they do show that the Detroit FBI office sent a
number of memos to Washington stressing that Nixon and Fitzsimmons could hold
the answers to the Hoffa case. Robert Stewart, a former assistant U.S. attorney in Buffalo, N.Y., who helped
lead the investigation into just how Hoffa vanished, said in another memo: ''The
one individual who could prove the matter beyond a doubt is Richard Nixon.''
Stewart wasn't sure whether Nixon would cooperate, given that he had been
pardoned by successor Gerald Ford for his involvement in the Watergate scandal.
But the investigator added that Nixon ''must certainly appreciate that while the
pardon may protect him as to whatever happened in the White House, a fresh
perjury committed in a current grand jury would place him in dire jeopardy.''
In a separate memo to headquarters, Detroit FBI agents concluded, ''It would
be a gross understatement to state that Fitzsimmons is the key to the solution
of this case, and yet he represents the major problem encountered with the
Department of Justice … Fitzsimmons should have appeared long ago before the
federal grand jury in Detroit to answer questions about his association with
Hoffa and any possible involvement he had in dealings leading up to Hoffa's
disappearance. To date, the Department of Justice has refused to allow
Fitzsimmons to testify.''Fitzsimmons died three years later, never appearing before the grand jury. Of
course, Nixon, who died in 1994, never appeared either.Nixon first met Fitzsimmons when Jimmy Hoffa was still in jail and
Fitzsimmons was in line to succeed him as Teamsters boss. The President and Fitz
quickly colluded on a plan for Hoffa's release, and they started an alliance
that was sealed with cold cash – huge payments involving the Mob. How much –in
addition to the previously mentioned $300,000 in the black valise that Hoffa's
son and Allen Dorfman allegedly delivered from Hoffa – is not known, but there
are indications it was considerably more.In 1997, a former Fitzsimmons crony named Harry Hall told historian Anthony
Summers: ''Fitzsimmons figured he'd found an ally in Nixon. The Teamsters would
help him financially, and Nixon ate that up … I was told they gave money to
Chotiner that was to go to Nixon. I think it was close to $500,000.''Hall added that the half-million was intended for Nixon's personal use; and
that a similar amount was donated to the president's re-election campaign.In return, a delighted Nixon privately praised the union's members to
Fitzsimmons as ''stand-up guys.'' And the President did a big personal favor for
the Teamsters chief – he had the Justice Department stop a probe of Fitz's son,
Richard, who was accused of allowing his wife and children to use a union credit
card to buy $1,500 worth of gas for their cars. One federal investigator said
the case against Richard Fitzsimmons was dropped because of the ''love affair''
between Nixon and Fitz.In a smaller favor, but one that meant a great deal to the golf-addicted
Fitzsimmons, Nixon ordered aide Charles Colson to try to get Fitz into a
prestigious Washington country club. Colson wrote a memo to his assistant,
George Bell: ''Fitz wants Columbia because that's where (AFL-CIO union president
George) Meany belongs. But if (Fitz) got into Burning Tree (where the President
golfed) he could be one up on Meany, which would appeal to him – any way you
have to, but do it somehow, whatever needs to be done. I suspect the President
would write a letter (on Fitz's behalf) if needed.'' Colson wore horn-rimmed glasses and was a tall, heavyset, tough-talking
ex-Marine who was ruthless with Nixon's enemies (he had a motto above his bar:
''Once you have them by the balls, their hearts and minds will follow''). Yet
Colson showed an amiable, even pliable side, when doling out favors to the
President's mobbed-up labor allies.A Jan. 19, 1972 Justice Department memo predicted that a Fitzsimmons
Teamsters associate – a New York hoodlum named Daniel Gagliardi – would be
indicted for extortion ''sometime next month.'' But Gagliardi knew whom to phone
for help in the Nixon White House: Chuck Colson. He actually spoke with Colson's
aide George Bell, who later told his boss in a memo: ''I talked to Gagliardi, who
maintained complete ignorance and innocence regarding the Teamsters. (He) asked
that he be gotten off the hook.''Colson wrote back to Bell: ''Watch for this. Do all possible.''Bell obviously carried out his assignment: Gagliardi was never indicted.Nixon's and Colson's courting of Fitzsimmons paid off big-time at a July 17,
1972 meeting of Teamster leaders at the Mob-owned La Costa Country Club near San
Diego. The union's 17-member executive board enthusiastically endorsed Nixon for
re-election. Afterwards, the entire board traveled 35 miles up the California
coast to the Western White House in San Clemente. There they delivered the good
news to President Nixon and posed for individual pictures with him.In October, Fitzsimmons issued a statement saying, ''The biggest weapon the
American worker has to protect himself and his country is the ballot. This year
we are going to use it to reject the extremism of (Democratic nominee Senator)
George McGovern, and to re-elect a great American – President Richard Nixon.''In November, Nixon scored a landslide victory over McGovern (who won only
Massachusetts and the District of Columbia) and prepared to give the nation
''four more years'' of his rather peculiar brand of ''law and order.'' [February 5, 2006]

Don Fulsom covered the Nixon White House for
United Press International. He has written about Nixon for The
Washington Post, The Chicago Tribune, Esquire, Los Angeles, and
Regardie’s. An interesting footnote:
Jack Ruby worked for Congressman Richard Nixon as a witness for the
House on Un American Activities Committee in Chicago, when his name was
still Jack Rubenstein, yet another
direct link between Richard Nixon and the assassination of John F. Kennedy.

Dirty Politics-- Hoover, Blackmail,

"Corrupt
and Incompetent Law Enforcement Officials give murderers the
opportunity to evade criminal prosecution, but the public always knows
exactly what a murderer looks like and how he or she behaves."
Blackmail is strictly a vehicle of coercion. The practise is itself
repulsive but the ramifications that surround it are even graver.
People
who practise blackmail are like dope addicts -the disease is
progressive. If, for example blackmail does not fulfil the desired
consequences, murder is the natural follow up.
The failed attempt to blackmail and coerce Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., prompted his murder.
The
failure to blackmail or to manipulate the Kennedys towards a specific
policy direction made it clear in the "one track mind" of the zealot,
that murder was the only way to deal with them. In particular, Hoover's
obsession to control people and their ideas had in fact made targets out
of the most prominent people in America.
They were not all
blackmail victims in the literal sense of the word, but they were all
victims of the obsessive campaign to control public opinion. Political
adversaries made ideal blackmail targets because politicians are deemed
to be publicly accountable and are consequently more susceptible to the
effort to publicly embarrass them. To be sure, when the blackmail
charges are extremely frivolous and evidently fraudulent, the effort
ultimately fails, even though the allegations linger and often assume a
"second life" when they are exploited by publicity-seeking scavengers
who embellish sensational lies. The insidious effort to control through
blackmail is not very effective against prominent targets like Ernest
Hemingway who were not easily intimidated, and the obsession to control
them progressively escalated to the point where the "target" was
murdered. To be sure, public ignorance records the "fact" that Hemingway
committed suicide. Regardless, there is not a single shred of credible
evidence to suggest that Hemingway did in fact kill himself. Ernest
Hemingway was a persistent target of Hoover's FBI since at least 1940
when Hoover was infuriated over what he saw as unwarranted intrusion
into his exclusive right to spy. In 1940, Hemingway had organized a
private spy network in Cuba to gather information about Nazi
sympathizers, in effort to undermine Hitler's war. Hemingway called his
anti-Nazi operation the Crook Factory, and Hoover's repeated, failed
attempts to close down the operation invariably fanned his paranoia. The
"infallible" Director was not used to being denied, and Hemingway was
consequently viewed to be a powerful adversary who was feared as much as
he was despised. The 124-page FBI file on Hemingway reflects the fear,
the paranoia and the zeal to control the famous writer who was treated
like a dangerous adversary. Hemingway's FBI file "showed that the Bureau
resented his amateur but alarming intrusion into their territory; that
it unsuccessfully attempted to control, mock and vilify him; that it
feared his personal prestige and political power." Hoover's relentless
efforts to discredit Hemingway reflects the paranoia of a dangerous
demagogue who was unable and unwilling to leave his target alone. In
1942, J. Edgar Hoover wrote: "Any information which you have relating to
the unreliability of Ernest Hemingway as an informant may be discreetly
brought to the attention of the Ambassador Braden. In this respect it
will be recalled that recently Hemingway gave information concerning the
refuelling of submarines in Caribbean waters which has proved
unreliable." Just two days after dismissing Hemingway as "unreliable"
Hoover wrote: "[Hemingway's] judgment is not of the best, and if his
sobriety is the same as it was some years ago, that is certainly
questionable". In contrast to Hoover's frivolous, malicious and
relentless efforts to dismiss Hemingway's entire life by claiming that
he was absolutely nothing beyond an unreliable, pathetic drunk with the
proclivity to support Communist causes, Hemingway's characterization of
Hoover's FBI has proven to be entirely accurate. In 1950, when Most
Americans were still having a love-in with the Director and his
so-called infallible FBI, Hemingway said that Hoover's FBI was
antiliberal, pro-Fascist and dangerous of developing into an American
Gestapo." In retrospect, Hemingway's assessment was absolutely reliable.
Watergate burglar Gordon Liddy, who joined the FBI in 1957, is
certainly a living embodiment of the fact that Hoover's FBI was
essentially "America's Gestapo." Indeed, the evidence is so clear and
beyond dispute that one does not even need to make any inferences or
assumptions. All one has to do, is to quote Gordon Liddy himself.
Liddy's FBI training led him to develop the belief that he belonged to
an elite corps of agents whose duty it was to save America from all form
of subversion -real or imagined and J. Edgar Hoover was the supreme
dictator who spearheaded the national security-motivated war. In the
words of Gordon Liddy: "As Adolph Hitler was referred to throughout the
Third Reich as simply der Fuhrer, so J. Edgar Hoover was referred to
throughout the FBI as the Director." Hoover storm trooper, Gordon Liddy
was prepared to do whatever was deemed to be necessary, to satisfy der
Fuhrer. Indeed, discussion about the liquidation of political enemies
was entertained as casually as most people talk about the weather. The
following Liddy narrative reflects the sinister murder plots that
tyrannical intelligence spooks like J. Edgar Hoover were prone to
embrace:

I urged as the logical and just solution that
the target [Jack Anderson] be killed. Quickly. My suggestion was
received with immediate acceptance, almost relief, as if they were just
waiting for someone else to say for them what was really on their minds.
There followed a lengthy discussion of the ways and means to accomplish
the task best. Hunt [former CIA agent who has been linked as a
co-conspirator in the Kennedy assassination] still enamoured of the LSD
approach asked Dr. Gunn [a physician retired from the CIA known for his
"unorthodox application of medical and chemical knowledge"] whether a
massive dose might not cause such disruption of motor function that the
driver of the car would lose control of it and crash. [like Kennedy's
car at Chappaquiddick, the event that, according to Nixon, "would
undermine Kennedy's role as a leader of the opposition to the
administration's policies.]4 Dr. Gunn repeated his earlier negative
advice on the use of LSD. Besides, though LSD can be absorbed through
the skin, our hypothetical target might be wearing gloves against the
winter cold, or be chauffeur-driven. The use of LSD was, finally
dismissed. Hunt's suggestion called to Dr. Gunn's mind a technique used
successfully abroad. It involved catching the target's moving automobile
in a sharp turn or sharp curve and hitting it with another car on the
outside rear quarter. According to Dr. Gunn, if the angle of the blow
and the relative speeds of the two vehicles were correct, the target
vehicle would flip over, crash, and usually burn.

Liddy goes on and on talking about all kinds of different ways to murder
people and about illegal FBI operations which were always staged in a
manner that made it appear as though the FBI was absolutely blameless.
Indeed J. Edgar Hoover routinely authorized criminal activity like
illegal surveillance, mail openings, unauthorized bugging, illegal
wiretaps, break-ins and murder -and it was all successfully covered up
through the overriding obsession to avoid discovery. Gordon Liddy
embodies the fact that murder was the ultimate consequence of Hoover's
obsession to control a particular target, and like all illegal FBI
activity, it was done in a manner that "proved" that it was not the
fault of the FBI even though it was. Ernest Hemingway was precocious
enough to characterize the murderous capacity of Hoover's FBI, but he
was ignored and at least four decades ahead of his time -we are still
just beginning to appreciate the significance of Hoover-directed
tyranny. Would-be assassins like Gordon Liddy should certainly erase
every single shred of doubt about the fact that J. Edgar Hoover
cultivated and worked with murderers. To be sure, Gordon Liddy has never
been prosecuted for murder, but like Al Capone who was also
accomplished in the art of covering up criminal operations, allegations
of murder follow him as closely as is evidently warranted. According to
Washington attorney Bernard Fensterwald: "G. Gordon Liddy has been
reliably linked to two separate alleged murder plans during his work for
Nixon's top aides, and one other actual completed murder, during his
previous FBI service."6 When Liddy became Nixon's crony and the cozy
relationship between Hoover and the Nixon White House soured, Liddy and
his faithful Cuban partners in crime were responsible for break-ins at
Hoover's apartment and "a poison of the thyon-phosphate genre was placed
on Hoover's personal toilet articles."7 The poison induces fatal heart
attacks. Howard Hunt had indicated that he had been ordered to kill
Anderson with an untraceable poison and while the scheme was dropped,
the simple fact that zealots with a proclivity to commit politically
motivated murder had access to such diabolical resources, is in itself
revolting.
If the implications of the sinister dimension of
Hoover's FBI are not acknowledged, it is not possible to realistically
assess the actual substance of the relationship between Hoover and
Hemingway. There is in fact a huge gaping omission in the historical
record because deception, denial, fraud and evasion has too often
provided the opportunity to cover up Hoover sponsored crime. Moreover,
the common tendency to ignore the significance of Hoover's ferocious,
anti-Hemingway crusade certainly dulls the prospect of reconstructing
the elusive truth. In retrospect, it is impossible to ignore the fact
that the extreme hostility between Hoover and Hemingway drew battle
lines which were clearly defined and courted predictable casualties. In
particular, Hemingway despised and opposed the McCarthy-style
persecutions that Hoover secretly supported, criticized the practise of
using the FBI to harass American citizens without justification and was
predictably "exiled" for vigorously condemning the tyranny that Hoover
promoted and encouraged.
Quoted in Look in May of 1954, when McCarthy was at the height of his
power, Hemingway said that there is nothing "wrong with Senator Joseph
McCarthy of Wisconsin that a .577 solid would not cure". McCarthy and
Hoover evidently incited the worst and destroyed the best of everything
they touched. Hemingway was not a gun-toting extremist. It was Hoover
who induced that spirit. The frustration of being persecuted by Hoover's
FBI had taken its toll as early as 1954, when FBI agents evidently
shadowed Hemingway wherever he went. Recall that Frank Wilkinson, a
relatively obscure target had as many as eight FBI agents tailing him
-an internationally reputed author like Hemingway was invariably the
victim of an equally outrageous degree of unwarranted, illegal
surveillance. But despite the fact that he was a target of covert,
illegal operations, Hemingway was provided no recourse to justice and
could do very little beyond mock the "obtrusive, inescapable FBI men,
pleasant and all trying to look so average, clean-cut-young-American
that they stood out as clearly as though they had worn a bureau shoulder
patch on their white linen or seersucker suits". Hoover used the
"infallible" wing of the FBI to spy on Hemingway, and unbeknownst to
agents who were simply following relatively innocuous instructions, they
ultimately aided and abetted a murderer like J. Edgar Hoover. Clearly,
when FBI agents placed Hemingway under surveillance to develop a
derogatory profile, the plot to discredit Hemingway escalated from the
effort to label him a drunk, a liar, and a Communist to the
determination to declare him insane in order to justify his alleged
suicide. FBI smear campaigns against Hemingway were extremely secretive
because Hoover was afraid to confront him in public and public ignorance
made it easy for him to promote the suggestion that Hemingway was
paranoid. How, for example, could Hemingway convincingly claim that
Hoover's FBI was America's Gestapo, when the FBI did not publicly
demonstrate any interest in him? In the final analysis, it is the
extreme secrecy that Hoover maintained which provided the opportunity to
promote the claim that Hemingway was paranoid and unstable when in fact
he was more reasonable and more perceptive than most. Critics who harp
on common misrepresentations had a field day with the claim that
Hemingway committed suicide, but they merely promoted common ignorance.
Hoover had spent over a decade trying to convince anyone who would
listen that Hemingway was unreliable, and it was only a matter of time
before his relentless, illegal intrusions destroyed Hemingway. Having
committed the unpardonable sin of challenging the infallible reputation
of the FBI, Hemingway was clearly a priority target who was always
shadowed by the FBI until the very day he was murdered or, as the
official record dictates, "committed suicide".
In late 1960, when Hemingway arrived in New York, having left Cuba for
the last time, Hemingway told his wife Mary: "They're tailing me out
here already... Somebody waiting out there."9 Hoover's FBI was indeed
always tailing Hemingway -a harassment that disturbed him so profoundly
that he didn't even want to leave his small apartment. Hemingway's wife
dismissed his legitimate concerns and developed the belief that he was
"losing it". Ironically, it is the fact that Hemingway was perceptive
enough to challenge unwarranted FBI surveillance which prompted the
allegation that he was suffering from delusions, paranoia, fear of
persecution -mental illness. But it is the people who claimed that
Hemingway was unstable who were ultimately deluded. Hoover's FBI in New
York had nothing better to than to tail so-called Communist subversives
and prominent adversaries like Hemingway were invariably smothered by
overzealous FBI agents who thrived upon the opportunity to satisfy the
Director's paranoia over public literary enemy number one. Hemingway's
deepest and most disturbing fear concerning the FBI was well grounded,
yet he was constantly branded paranoid whenever he exposed what was
essentially the truth. Perfectly logical commentary like "nobody likes
to be tailed... investigated, queried about, by any amateur detective no
matter how scholarly or how straight", reflected legitimate
frustrations not paranoia -frustrations that Hemingway had to deal with
all by himself. Even his wife and his so-called friend Hotchner, who
called him paranoid simply because he acknowledged the obvious,
inadvertently made it easier for Hoover to persecute Hemingway.
Determined to "prove" that Hemingway was unreliable, paranoid and
delusionary, the secrecy that Hoover imposed ultimately granted the
opportunity to exploit the ignorance of those who did not acknowledge
the threat that Hoover's FBI posed. Mary and Hotchner certainly
manifested the phenomenal ignorance which shaped their frivolous
perspectives:

Both Mary and Hotchner have said that Hemingway imagined he was being
followed and spied on by FBI agents in Ketchum and in the Mayo Clinic,
and that no kind of argument or evidence could change his mind or
alleviate his irrational but quite terrifying fear. Mary and Hotchner
thought his fear of the FBI meant that he was losing touch with reality
and heading for a mental breakdown -[all music to Hoover's ears]

Hemingway, who was invariably always followed by Hoover's FBI, has been
posthumously vindicated. Hemingway wasn't paranoid. Hotchner and Mary
were ignorant.
In 1960, suffering from high blood pressure, liver and kidney diseases
and haemochromatosis, a rare, chronic form of diabetes, Hemingway sought
medical treatment to relieve his physical ailments. Hemingway was not,
as has been frequently suggested, a psychiatric patient. Having endured a
liver malady since 1937, Hemingway had given up drinking on the advice
of his doctor, but by 1960, his worsening condition prompted the need
for further medical attention. Thus, on November 30, 1960, Hemingway
entered the Mayo clinic and hoped to return home by Christmas. Knowing
that the FBI was monitoring every move that he made, Hemingway sought to
enter the Mayo clinic under an assumed name to keep his visits to the
Mayo a secret, but despite Hemingway's expressed orders, Dr. Rome, a
psychiatrist at the Mayo Clinic, violated Hemingway's right to privacy.
The FBI was carefully monitoring Hemingway's treatment at the Mayo
clinic and "a letter from special agent in Minneapolis to J. Edgar
Hoover on January 13, 1960 reported that Hemingway had secretly entered
the Mayo Clinic and the FBI knew about his treatment." Indeed "the FBI
had, in fact, tracked Hemingway to the walls of the Mayo Clinic and
discussed his case with his psychiatrist." Dr. Rome was evidently
cooperating more with Hoover's FBI and not at all, to the concerns of
Ernest Hemingway. This direct, unethical violation of Hemingway's rights
and expressed orders is directly responsible for his murder. At the
Mayo Clinic, instead of treating the physical ailments that concerned
him, Hemingway was given a series of electric shocks to the brain.
Electro-convulsive therapy was the best-known treatment for hopeless
psychiatric patients, it was not a cure for liver disease. It was, above
all, an extreme, illegal, perverted effort to induce a stubborn
non-conformist to become the docile and passive FBI cheerleader that
Hoover demanded.
Prior to having received shock therapy at the Mayo, Hemingway had never
attempted suicide and had never sought out or received psychiatric
treatment. Moreover, there is no credible evidence to suggest that he
required a treatment as harmful and as controversial as shock therapy.
When medical experts like Dr. Bonnie Burstow, an outspoken critic of
ECT, describes the treatment, it sounds like the entire procedure was
the ideal behaviour modification tool that Hoover spent a life time
seeking to acquire. According to Dr. Burstow:

Why am I opposed to shock treatment... To begin with, because of what it
is, intrinsically a brain damaging treatment. To understand this, it is
important to know how the treatment works. Shock treatment is one in
which sufficient electricity is passed through the brain to produce a
grand mal seizure, thereby resulting in cell death. This is what it
does; this is all it does. Brain damage, to be clear, is not a
side-effect of shock treatment. It is the primary effect.

Moreover, there is absolutely no reliable evidence to even remotely
suggest that Hemingway would ever submit to such a radical method of
treatment. On the contrary, his lifelong scorn of psychiatrists coupled
with his assertion that his analyst was "portable Corona No. 3",
strongly suggests that the treatment that he received at the Mayo
Clinic, a direct violation of everything that Hemingway believed in, was
as improper and as unethical as aiming a gun at his head and pulling
the trigger. If Hemingway cooperated with Dr. Rome, it was probably
because, as Anthony Burgess has indicated, Dr. Rome "was a psychiatrist
but did not present himself as one."
In retrospect, the fact that J. Edgar Hoover exploited the prestige of
the FBI and used the behavioral sciences to control people like
Hemingway, is not at all surprising. Given Hoover's paranoia and
obsessions, it is not unreasonable to assume that there exists a closet
full of controversial "suicide" cases which reflect Hoover's tendency to
use the influence of his "infallible" FBI to enlist the services of
unsuspecting or sympathetic professionals, in his private, covert war
against domestic "subversives". The two most common cases which
evidently reflect Hoover-sponsored tampering are Dr. Rome who treated
Hemingway and Dr. Greenson, who treated Marilyn Monroe. Hoover had
essentially cultivated the extraordinary capacity to "dictate individual
sanity" and that evidently intoxicated Hoover with the sense that his
power was absolutely divine. Indeed, when Martin Luther King, Jr.,
became his priority target, Hoover's FBI actually sought to induce him
into committing suicide. The astounding arrogance of the belief that
Hoover's FBI could simply will King into committing suicide by promoting
the belief that the civil rights champion was perverse and mentally
unstable, is evidently an astonishing insight into what Hoover's FBI
deemed possible -like the capacity to prompt the "suicide" of Hemingway.
The bizarre plot to provoke the "suicide" of King had to be linked to
previous Hoover-instigated perversions like the "suicide" of Hemingway
-it just doesn't make sense in isolation. But if Hoover had made
Hemingway kill himself, why couldn't he attempt to do the same to King?
In the final analysis, the missing ingredient in the attempt to cause
King's suicide was a "politically reliable" Doctor who could be
prevailed upon to manipulate King and to maintain the level of secrecy
that Hoover demanded. Indeed, without Dr. Rome, Hoover could not have
possibly prompted Hemingway's "suicide" because he would have been
denied the opportunity to exploit the influence of the "behavioral
sciences" in the ongoing effort to "prove" that Hemingway was insane.
The cooperative, extremely secretive relationship between Dr. Rome and
Hoover's FBI, ultimately determined that Hemingway was hopelessly
insane. In the midst of it all, secrecy is ultimately responsible for
the perverted plots that Hoover managed to get away with. Secrecy
provided J. Edgar Hoover the opportunity to recruit "politically
reliable" doctors who did little beyond perform what they saw as their
patriotic duty by taking Hoover's FBI at face value. Secrecy provided
Dr. Rome the opportunity to zap Hemingway's brain with electric currents
while he slept, and secrecy provided J. Edgar Hoover the opportunity to
cover it all up. In retrospect, the aura of secrecy which surrounds the
treatment of Hemingway is repugnant. Dr. Rome conveniently claimed
patient/client privilege and refused to talk but he was evidently quite
comfortable talking to Hoover's FBI about Hemingway. Despite violating
Hemingway's trust by cooperating with Hoover's FBI, Doctor Rome
demonstrated the shameless audacity to hide behind the censorship
refrain: "I've made it practice never ever to reveal any of my contacts
with Mr. Hemingway because I gave him my word when he was my patient."14
It all sounds very ethical, but under the circumstances, an
orchestrated cover up is the only rational explanation which accounts
for the extreme secrecy. Psychiatrist Irvin D. Yalom made a futile
effort to uncover the truth, but "gag orders" effectively denied the
opportunity to penetrate all the deception. Doctor Irvin D. Yalom is as
specific as Rome is evasive. According to Yalom:

I attempted to interview Howard Rome, the psychiatrist who treated
Hemingway in his final depression but he informed me, with a finger
across his mouth, that before treating Hemingway he had been obliged to
promise that his lips would be forever sealed.

How convenient. Here you have the murder of an internationally
celebrated genius and Doctor Rome's "lips were sealed". At the same
time, while Doctor Rome distorts the truth through his refusal to tell
it, he belittles the opinions of psychiatrists through arrogant
commentary like "That's his opinion", and "I don't know that Dr.
Robitscher ever saw Mr. Hemingway", and having been told that he had
not, he pompously added, "Then that's his opinion, gratuitously." In
actual fact, even if Dr. Robitscher had tried to see Hemingway before
his death, he would have been denied access, and in that respect, Dr.
Rome is not at all authoritative, just evasive. Indeed, even Hemingway's
friend, Winston Guest, was denied access to Hemingway. According to Mr.
Guest:

I knew he'd gone to a hospital, but I was very naive about it; I didn't
know how ill he was. I'll never forget finding out who was the top
psychiatrist at the hospital and I called him and said I wanted to talk
to Ernest. I told him who I was. The doctor said practically, "Are you
mad? Are you crazy? You can't talk to him at all." So then I guessed he
must have been seriously ill, mentally ill. And I never saw him again
after that."

Mr. Guest illustrates the ease in which the assumption that Hemingway
was insane was, without good cause or authority, matter-of-factly
accepted. A more scrupulous analysis, offered by author Jeffrey Meyers,
effectively challenged the credibility of the erroneous assertion that
Hemingway was insane and highlights the simple fact that Hemingway was
essentially murdered through shock therapy when he said:

For some people, yes [shock therapy is an effective treatment]. But
when it didn't work with Hemingway the first time they tried it a second
time. And when it didn't work a second time, they tried it a third
time. Rome should have gotten the picture that with this patient it's
not working. He just had one way of doing everything. If somebody came
in to Rome with cancer or a hang nail, he'd probably get shock
treatment.

When author Denis Brian asked Doctor Rome to justify repeated shock
therapy treatment, he predictably said: "Unless you know the whole
content of what he had... But I choose not to talk about that."
To talk about the "whole content," Ernest Hemingway was obsessed by the
incredible passion to live -he even gave up drinking for it. In fact,
throughout his life, he repeatedly equated the act of committing suicide
with cowardice, and one would really have to stretch the imagination to
suggest that Hemingway was a coward. Indeed, the very thought of what
he perceived to be a cowardly act like suicide repulsed Hemingway and in
1935, he clearly exposed his unequivocal, anti-suicide "crusade" when
he wrote:

My father was a coward. He shot himself without necessity. At least I
thought so. I had gone through it myself until I figured it in my head. I
knew what it was to be a coward and what it was to cease being a
coward. Now, truly, in actual danger I felt a clean feeling as in a
shower. Of course it was easy now. That was because I no longer cared
what happened. I knew it was better to live it so that if you died you
had done everything that you could do about your work and your enjoyment
of life up to that minute, reconciling the two, which is very
difficult.

Having equated the act of suicide to cowardice, Hemingway was
effectively immune. The ending of A Farewell to Arms, rewritten seventy
times, reflects Hemingway's general philosophy:

He has the most profound bravery that it has ever been my privilege to
see... He has had pain, ill-health, and the kind of poverty that you
don't believe-the kind of which actual hunger is the attendant; he has
had about eight times the normal allotment of responsibilities. And he
has never compromised. He has never turned off an easier path than the
one he staked himself. It takes courage.

In the final analysis, the claim that Hemingway committed suicide is
patently absurd. Hemingway was in fact the last person in the world who
can credibly be called suicidal. Even despair, which is commonly used to
justify suicide, was a hurdle that motivated Hemingway to strive to
become the very best that he could possibly be. In a letter to Scott
Fitzgerald in 1934, Hemingway essentially exposed the motivation that
made him both a great writer and an unlikely suicide victim, when her
wrote:

We are all bitched from the start and you especially have to hurt like
hell before you can write seriously. But when you get the damned hurt
use it -don't cheat with it. Be as faithful to it as a scientist.

Despair was never a serious obstacle, it is actually what made Hemingway
put pen to paper. Living through his work, Hemingway retained his zest
to live and to write for as long as he was not the victim of shock
therapy. That became quite obvious in February of 1961, [after shock
therapy treatment] when Hemingway tried to pen a few words to
commemorate the newly inaugurated President John F. Kennedy. The month
previous, an invitation to attend the Kennedy inauguration had cheered
Hemingway, but he was too ill to attend. And so he continued to try to
pen just a few words, to thank the new President for the invitation.
Hours latter, the paper was still blank. J. Edgar Hoover had finally
destroyed Hemingway's capacity to think and to write. Just a few words,
any school child, gifted or not, could pen just a few words. Hemingway,
the literary genius, father of A Farewell to Arms and For Whom the Bell
Tolls could not pen just a few words. Hemingway was dead.
It had taken a long time for Hoover to determine how to deal with a
popular dissenter like Hemingway without arousing suspicion and he had
finally figured it out. In retrospect, it was all a typically perverted
J. Edgar Hoover plot -it was the most bizarre, unbelievable exploitation
of power imaginable. The golden rule of pre-watergate, mainstream
America was to obey and not to question authority and that gave Hoover's
highly trusted FBI agents an extraordinary degree of power. But in the
context of the abuse of power that Hoover practised, FBI agents were
essentially spies who provided Hoover the opportunity to target and to
scheme the murder of his enemies. Indeed, even unsuspecting FBI
informants like Ronald Reagan, who spied on his fellow co-workers in
hollywood and branded them Communists, ultimately furthered the perverse
ends of J. Edgar Hoover. In the final analysis, the evil inherent in
spying on law abiding citizens is clear. History clearly records the
fact that there is very little, if any distinction between politically
motivated spying and counselling to commit murder, and intelligence
agencies and their informants have established an extremely deplorable
record of criminal culpability. Indeed, throughout North America, the
most enduring legacy that intelligence agencies have established on the
domestic front is a record of excessive, unmerited use of covert action.
The tragic, senseless murder of Ernest Hemingway is just one of
countless cases where targets of illegal surveillance were exterminated
like flies. The only reason we can determine what happened to Hemingway
is that he was famous enough for people to have written books about him.
Lesser targets or relative unknowns, were even easier to victimize
through the power of secrecy. A staged suicide, a staged burglary, a
staged car accident or any other perverted scheme that lurks in the
minds of the Gordon Liddy's and the Howard Hunt's of this world, should
be exposed by the vast resources of the intelligence community, they
should not be facilitated.
Like Hemingway, Marilyn Monroe was also a victim of Hoover's McCarthyite
witch hunts. Since 1956, when Marilyn Monroe's husband, playwright
Arthur Miller, was hauled before the Un-American Activities Committee to
purge his so-called Communist associations, Monroe developed a serious
hatred for Committee supporters like Richard Nixon and J. Edgar Hoover
and she didn't hesitate to make her views known. Like Hemingway, who had
lashed out at McCarthy, Monroe was livid with anger and in 1958, she
blasted:

Some of those bastards in Hollywood wanted me to drop Arthur. Said it
would ruin my career. They're born cowards and want you to be like them.
One reason I want to see Kennedy win is that Nixon's associated with
that whole scene.

Red-baiting zealots disturbed and angered Monroe and it was her hatred
of anti-Communist rabble-rousers like Hoover and Nixon, that drove her
towards the Kennedy camp. Hoover considered Marilyn Monroe to be a
serious threat to the national security of the United States, and she
certainly fanned his paranoia in 1960 when she became a sponsor of SANE,
the Committee for a Sane Nuclear Policy. Clearly, as far as Hoover was
concerned, Monroe was a certifiable Communist -her strong feelings for
civil rights, for black equality and for peace, was in fact the
so-called un-American agenda that Hoover violently opposed. In
retrospect, the battle lines were very clearly defined. Demagogues like
Hoover and Nixon manufactured, encouraged and exploited un-American
hysteria while reasonable people were repulsed by what was clearly an
ignorant witch hunt. Even the eminent British historian, Professor
Arnold Toynbee, ridiculed the Cold War tendency to bully the individual
through what he called "mass opinion", and like John F. Kennedy, who
discredited Cold War epithets, Professor Toynbee ridiculed the very word
"Un-American" when he said:

This word "Un-American!" -the Committee on Un-American Activities. A
Committee on "Un-British Activities" for the British Parliament would be
so laughable it could not be done. Or can you imagine a "Committee
against Un-French Activities?"

Most Americans shared the belief that Hoover's Un-American witch hunt
strangled individual hope and freedom, and in 1983, Gloria Steinhem
essentially assessed the damage when she said:

It was [Kennedy's Presidency] the last time in my life that the majority
views of the country have been connected to the government.

Indeed,
in the 1960's, "the majority views of the country" were violently
opposed and the diabolical plots of a national security-motivated
minority determined the course of American politics. Innocent victims
like Marilyn Monroe were caught in a political crossfire. The political
volatility of the 1950's and 1960's certainly dominated and claimed both
the life and the death of Marilyn Monroe. The House on Un-American
activities was not a local, Washington witch hunt -it was a phenomenon
that had even divided hollywood into two hostile camps that saw
self-proclaimed anti-Communists on the right, identifying, blacklisting
and harassing anyone who was deemed to be an agent of Communism. Hoover
was particularly obsessed by the struggle in hollywood because he
believed that Communists were trying to infiltrate the movie industry
and he certainly was not about to let that happen. Astoundingly, just
like anti-Castro operations in Cuba, the interests of Hoover and the
Mafia converged in hollywood as well. The secret war to dominate the
hollywood industry was also a preoccupation of L.A. mobsters like Mickey
Cohen, who made a career out of exploiting hollywood stars like Marilyn
Monroe. Blackmailing movie stars by threatening to expose their secret
sexual liaisons, Cohen arranged for the lovemaking of his targets to be
surreptitiously filmed and recorded. Johnny Roselli, who shared the
interest in "carving out" a piece of hollywood for the Mafia, was
Giancana's hollywood representative, and that placed Monroe's blackmail
potential in a new perspective. Marilyn Monroe, who was an acquaintance
of both the Kennedys and Mafia predators like Johnny Roselli, was
natural "bait" in the desperate, obsessive campaign to blackmail the
Kennedys.
And so when rumors about affairs between the Kennedys and Marilyn Monroe
began to fly, it is not surprising to note that the source of these
groundless allegations was none other than Hoover's Mafia friends. On
August 1, 1962, just three days before Marilyn Monroe was murdered, FBI
transcripts record Mafia Mogul Meyer Lansky discussing the obviously
fabricated claim that Robert Kennedy was having an affair with Marilyn
Monroe. Indeed, FBI microphones [that the shrewd Lansky was obviously
tipped off about] recorded Meyer Lansky and his wife, and the following
"incriminating" FBI document, dated August 11, 1962, was produced in a
deliberate, futile attempt to embarrass the Kennedys.

The real Jim Garrison

These are Jay Epstein's observations and he is one of the best:

On the evening of June 19, 1967, NBC devoted an hour to a critical
examination of Garrison's investigation, entitled "The JFK Conspiracy:
The case of Jim Garrison." The first part of the program dealt with
Russo's allegation that he had seen Oswald, Shaw and Ferrie plotting the
assassiantion at a party in Ferrie's apartment in September 1963. The
NBC reporters demonstrated that at least one other person present at the
party had not seen Shaw or Oswald there, and that Ferrie's bearded
roomate, who Russo claimed was Oswald, had been identified by other
people at the party as James Lewallen. The program then concentrated on
Garrison's investigative methods, and a parade of witnesses was
presented to allege that Garrison representatives had attempted to bribe
or intimidate them. In addition, NBC revealed that both of Garrison's
key witnesses, Russo and Vernon Bundy, had failed lie-detector tests
before testifying at the preliminary hearing...
During the time I studied Garrison's investigation and had access to his
office, the only evidence I saw or heard about that could connect Clay
Shaw with the assassiantion was fraudulent -some devised by Garrison
himself and some cynically culled from criminals or the emotionally
unstable.

On January 21, 1969, after nearly two years of
concocting and playing out his charges in the national media, Jim
Garrison finally tried the accused, Clay Shaw, in a court of law in New
Orleans.
The delay is inexplicable given the fact that on February 24, 1967, Jim
Garrison claimed that he had "positively solved the assassination of
President John F. Kennedy" and one week later, arrested Clay Shaw for
conspiring to kill the president.
If Garrison had a case, his actions would be excusable and
understandable, but the fact is, the conspiracy that Garrison laid out
in court took place at a single meeting in late September 1963 in the
apartment of David Ferrie in which three conspirators, Clay Shaw, David
Ferrie, and Lee Harvey Oswald, allegedly plotted the "cross fire" and
triangulation of fire" in Dallas, and the disconnect between his
sensational allegations and the substance behind them was clearly what
Jay Epstein appropriately called "staged ineptitude".
Sensational allegations are designed to dominate publicity, not to solve
a murder mystery, and Jim Garrison's actions speak for themselves.
Clearly, he did nothing more than advance the opportunity to cover up
the truth about the assassination of John F. Kennedy and Jim Garrison
was too intelligent to suggest that he did not deliberately intend to
bury the truth about the Kennedy assassination by dominating the circus
he produced.
The last known person to speak to Ferrie was George Lardner, Jr., of the
Washington Post, whom Ferrie had met with from midnight to 4:00 a.m. on
February 22, 1967. During this interview, Ferrie described Garrison as
"a joke". Several hours later, Ferrie died of a cerebral hemorrhage.
[But he was probably murdered because "the joke" needed a corpse like
Lee Harvey Oswald, to get away with promoting bizarre allegations that
were supposed to provide the opportunity to cover up rather than to
expose the truth.]

Jim Garrison was obviously not the heroic character that Oliver
Stone made him out to be. Indeed, he was merely one of many villains who
deliberately covered up the truth about the Kennedy assassination. If
we are not attuned to the historical record, we can fall prey to the
silly claim that Jim Garrison had struggled to exose the truth about the
assassination of John F. Kennedy. In fact, the exact opposite is true.
The media got it right and according to the New Orleans
States-Item, once a key supporter of Jim Garrison, "This travesty of
justice is a reproach to the conscience of all good men...Garrison
stands revealed for what he is: a man without principle who would
pervert the legal process to his own ends." Assassination buffs began to
accuse Garrison of staging the Shaw affair as a red herring to divert
attention away from more salient leads in New Orleans, and they were
absolutely correct.
When anybody exposes the real Jim Garrison, imposter
assassination buffs continue to promote the hollywood version of Jim
Garrison, but there is no real evidence to substantiate this delusion.
In particular,
Garrison was caught lying during a Playboy interview on October 1967,
wherein he exposed the following:GARRISON: Until as recently as November of 1966, I had complete
faith in the Warren Report. As a matter of fact, I viewed its most vocal
critics with the same skepticism that much of the press now views me
--- which is why I can't condemn the mass media too harshly for their
cynical approach, except in the handful of cases where newsmen seem to
be in active collusion with Washington to torpedo our investigation. Of
course, my faith in the Report was grounded in ignorance, since I had
never read it; as Mark Lane says, "The only way you can believe the
Report is not to have read it."
But then, in November, I visited New York City with Senator Russell
Long; and when the subject of the assassination came up, he expressed
grave doubts about the Warren Commission's conclusion that Lee Harvey
Oswald was the lone assassin...
PLAYBOY: So you began your investigation of the President's
assassination on nothing stronger than you own doubts and the theories
of the Commission's critics?
GARRISON: No, please don't put words in my mouth. The works of
the critics --- particularly Edward Epstein, Harold Weisberg and Mark
Lane --- sparked my general doubts about the assassination; but more
importantly, they led me into specific areas of inquiry.
PLAYBOY: Why did you become interested in Ferrie and his associates in November 1963?
GARRISON: To explain that, I'll have to tell you something about
the operation of our office. I believe we have one of the best district
attorney's offices in the country. We have no political appointments
and, as a result, there's a tremendous amount of esprit among our staff
and an enthusiasm for looking into unanswered questions. That's why we
got together the day after the assassination and began examining our
files and checking out every political extremist, religious fanatic and
kook who had ever come to our attention. And one of the names that
sprang into prominence was that of David Ferrie. When we checked him
out, as we were doing with innumerable other suspicious characters, we
discovered that on November 22nd he had traveled to Texas to go "duck
hunting" and "ice skating."
Well, naturally, this sparked our interest. We staked out his house and
we questioned his friends, and when he came back --- the first thing he
did on his return, incidentally, was to contact a lawyer and then hide
out for the night at a friend's room in another town --- we pulled him
and his two companions in for questioning. The story of Ferrie's
activities that emerged was rather curious. He drove nine hours through a
furious thunderstorm to Texas, then apparently gave up his plans to go
duck hunting and instead went to an ice-skating rink in Houston and
stood waiting beside a pay telephone for two hours; he never put the
skates on. We felt his movements were suspicious enough to justify his
arrest and that of his friends, and we took them into custody. When we
alerted the FBI, they expressed interest and asked us to turn the three
men over to them for questioning. We did, but Ferrie was released soon
afterward and most of its report on him was classified top secret and
secreted in the National Archives, where it will remain inaccessible to
the public until September 2038 A.D. No one, including me, can see those
pages.
Jim Garrison creatively danced around the truth that is not supposed to
be exposed, but the fact is, Garrison was in on the cover up with J.
Edgar Hoover from day ONE! How could Jim Garrison possibly have faith in
the Warren commission until 1966, when he knew that Hoover deliberately
made the truth inaccessible?
As a matter of fact, as early as November 1963, Dorothy
Kilgallen had managed to expose everything about the assassination of
John F. Kennedy that Jim Garrison relentlessly covered up.
MORE EVIDENCE THAT JIM GARRISON WAS DELIBERATELY COVERING UP, RATHER THAN EXPOSING THE TRUTH.
SELECT COMMITTEE ON ASSASSINATIONS
NAME: Jim Garrison Date: 11/8/78 Time: 11:00 am
Address: Federal Court House Place: New Orleans, La.

Interview:
Gary Cornwell, Bob Buras, and myself (Mike Ewing)
interviewed Garrison for approximately 45 minutes
in his office at the Federal Courthouse in New Orleans.
Garrison began the conversation with a lengthy recounting
of his efforts during 1967-69 to re-investigate the
Kennedy assassination and prosecute Clay Shaw. Garrison
spoke in general terms about the power of the CIA and FBI
and their ability to "control and evade" the investigative resources of any other body, including a
District Attorney's office or a Congressional committee.
Garrison stated that he assumes that the Select Committee
has learned of this unchallengeable power and has met
with the same frustration that he did.
Garrison spoke in somber tones about his investigation,
saying that he had done his best under very difficult
circumstances, and had of course made a few mistakes in
the process.
During the course of Garrison's long monologue about the
power of the federal government, particularly the CIA, it
was most difficult to ask him specific questions;
Garrison would continue to talk without responding to a
question on most occasions when they were asked.
In response to the question of exactly when and why he
first began re-investigating the Kennedy assassination in 1966,
Garrison gave a very vague answer, stating that he simply
became interested in some manner with David Ferrie and
Dean Andrews' 1964 story about a mysterious "Clem
Bertrand." Garrison would not elaborate.
In response to the question of how he came to obtain
David Ferrie's phone records of January to October of
1963, Garrison stated that he asked for and received them
from Marcello's attorney G. Wray Gill. He indicated that
he had long known Gill. He stated that Gill drew a line
through his own calls listed on the bills, and thus
Ferrie's calls were the other ones listed on the bill; as
they had not shared an office. When asked if he had ever
asked Gill why he had not turned over Ferrie's calls from
November 1963 (which were not included) Garrison at first
stated "I don't know." When the question was repeated,
with the comment that he must have viewed the absence of
the November 1963 calls disturbing, Garrison stated that
he thinks that he did ask Gill about the missing
November billing, and that Gill stated that they were
missing. When asked if he followed it up, perhaps by
asking Gill to make a further search for the records,
Garrison said he couldn't recall.It's called deliberate amnesia, whose purpose was, to cover this up.

According to Kennedy assassination researcher, John Simkin;

"If you do any research of major figures in the JFK assassination via
web search engines you will soon find yourself on John McAdams’ website.
He is clearly the main disinformation source on the net. He adopts an
academic tone and if one was not aware of the facts of the person or
event he is writing about, one would think he has logically looked at
the evidence available. He is therefore doing a successful job in
misleading students about the JFK assassination. In fact, it could be
argued that his impact has been as great as other disinformation agents
such as David Atlee Phillips, G. Robert Blakey, Dick Billings, Jack
Anderson, Gary Mack and Gerald Posner."

Indeed, John McAdams is a propagandist who simply exploits the well
known capacity to deceive. Descartes illustrated the process when he
said; "My second maxim was to be as firm and resolute in my actions as I
was able, and not to adhere less steadfastly to the most doubtful
opinions, when once adopted, than if they had been highly certain;
imitating in this the example of travelers who, when they have lost
their way in a forest, ought not to wander from side to side, far less
remain in one place, but proceed constantly towards the same side in as
straight a line as possible, without changing their direction for slight
reasons, although perhaps it might be chance alone which at first
determined the selection; for in this way, if they do not exactly reach
the point they desire, they will come at least in the end to some place
that will probably be preferable to the middle of a forest."

The only way to get out of the forest is to use your own head and
to study the documents. It would also be nice to prosecute crackpots
like John McAdams for deliberately covering up the truth about the
assassination of John F. Kennedy, unless of course, they manage to cop
an insanity plea.

When all is said and done, Jim Garrison is an open book because he was always loyal to his former boss,

The Men Who Killed Lennon

Jose Joaquin Sanjenis Perdomo, this is the spy and professional assassin
who killed John Lennon. Perdomo was tasked to provide security for
Lennon at the rock star's upscale apartment complex, the Dakota, the
night of the murder. He was an anti-Castro Cuban exile and member of
Brigade 2506 during the Bay of Pigs Invasion in 1961, a failed CIA
operation to overthrow Fidel Castro.

Joaquin Sanjenis had worked closely with convicted Watergate burglar
Frank Sturgis for about ten years on the CIA's payroll, and in
retrospect, it is safe to conclude that Nixon was behind Lennon's
murder.
Sturgis falsely claimed that Perdomo had died in 1974, and since Nixon
was essentially starting over in 1980, (as Ronald Reagan's secret
adviser) Sturgis and Nixon obviously handpicked the right man for what
they considered to be, "the right job".
This story gets even more bizarre, given the story of BinLaden's recent
death, despite reports that he actually died in 2001. It now appears
that in the world of intelligence operatives, there are peole who are
officially dead who are in fact alive, and people who are officially
alive who are in fact dead.
The evidence that implicates Dakota doorman, Jose Joaquin Sanjenis
Perdomo, as Lennon's killer, is far more extensive than claiming to dump
a body at sea. Records reveal a "Jose Joaquin Sanjenis Perdomo"
(aliases: "Joaquin Sanjenis" and "Sam Jenis") was an anti-Castro Cuban
exile and member of Brigade 2506 during the Bay of Pigs Invasion in
1961, a failed CIA operation to overthrow Fidel Castro. Perdomo was a
professional hit man who worked closely with
convicted Watergate burglar Frank Sturgis (deceased) for about ten years
on the CIA's payroll.
• Jose Perdomo was the doorman at the Dakota on Dec. 8, 1980, the night Lennon was killed.
• Jose Perdomo was at the crime scene when the murder occurred.
• Jose Perdomo asked accused
assassin Mark David Chapman, immediately after the shooting, if he knew
what he had just done. Chapman replied that he had just shot John
Lennon.
• Jose Perdomo told police
Chapman was Lennon's assailant. One of the arresting officers, Peter
Cullen, did not believe Chapman shot Lennon. Cullen believed the shooter
was a handyman at the Dakota, but Perdomo convinced Cullen it was
Chapman. Cullen thought Chapman "looked like a guy who worked in a
bank."
• Jose Perdomo was an
anti-Castro Cuban exile. Perdomo and Chapman discussed the Bay of Pigs
Invasion and JFK's assassination a few hours before Lennon was killed.
This suggests Perdomo was a member of Brigade 2506 during the Bay of
Pigs Invasion in 1961, a failed CIA operation to overthrow Fidel Castro.
• Cuban Information Archives
reveal a "Jose Joaquin Sanjenis Perdomo" (aliases: Joaquin Sanjenis, Sam
Jenis) was a member of Brigade 2506 during the Bay of Pigs Invasion in
1961.
• Joaquin Sanjenis worked
closely with convicted Watergate burglar Frank Sturgis (deceased) for
about ten years on the CIA's payroll.
• Frank Sturgis claimed Joaquin
Sanjenis died of natural causes in 1974; however, this was never
confirmed. This assertion was made in 1981 by Warren Hinckle and William
Turner in a book entitled, The Fish is Red: The Story of the Secret War
Against Castro. Here is an excerpt:
On a June morning in 1972, the week after the Watergate break-in,
Joaquin Sanjenis left his modest import-export office in Miami's Cuban
barrio and drove down SW Eighth Street to the Anthony Abrams Chevrolet
Agency. Jose Joaquin Sanjenis Perdomo was a plain man of
undifferentiated features, which was in his profession, an asset: He was
a professional spy. His personality suited his work in that neither
encouraged close personal relationships. His was a lonely life,
sweetened by habitual cups of Cuban coffee; he looked forward to his
forthcoming retirement, although he would not live long enough to enjoy
it. It is testimony to the importance his employers gave to his
carefully nurtured anonymity that when he died, of natural causes, in
1974, his family was not notified until after the funeral. Joaquin
Sanjenis was, for over ten years, the head of the CIA's supersecret
Operation 40 in Miami.
The wear of a decade of living in the shadows showed on the spy's face
that morning as he drove into the automobile agency's service entrance.
Sanjenis had launched scores of ships and planes on clandestine raids
against Cuba and had sent hundreds of men on missions from which there
had been no return. He was able to offer only the most mute of patriotic
explanations to the bereaved families. There were no official
missing-in-action reports in the Secret War against Cuba. It was Joaquin
Sanjenis's job to keep his troops, as himself, faceless.
(Warren Hinckle & William Turner, The Fish is Red: The Story of the
Secret War Against Castro, 1981, Martin & Row Publishers, ISBN
0-06-038003-9, pp. 307-308)
Whether Jose Joaquin Sanjenis Perdomo actually died in 1974, as Hinckle
and Turner wrote, is a point worth challenging. What evidence did they
present to support this claim? On page 354 of their book, under "Notes
and Sources," they gave the following source for their claim that
Sanjenis died in 1974: "Authors' interview with Frank Sturgis." How much
faith should we place in Frank Sturgis' word, particularly on this
critical point? Set aside that Sturgis is a convicted felon (Watergate
burglary), as an employee of the CIA, Sturgis had plenty of reason to
lie, particularly if Jose Joaquin Sanjenis Perdomo is/was the same
person who worked as a doorman at the Dakota on the night John Lennon
was murdered on December 8, 1980. Hinckle's and Turner's book, The Fish is Red,
was published in 1981, in the year after Lennon's murder. Consequently,
it makes sense that Sturgis would want to muddy the water a bit. In
addition, Hinckle and Turner revealed the importance the CIA placed on
Sanjenis's anonymity when they described his alleged death. They wrote:
"It is testimony to the importance his employers [the CIA] gave to his
carefully nurtured anonymity that when he died, of natural causes, in
1974, his family was not notified until after the funeral." Did Sanjenis
really die of natural causes in 1974? There is plenty of reason to
believe this claim was disinformation generated by Sturgis at the behest
of the CIA. The CIA had every reason to lie in order to continue
nurturing Sanjenis's anonymity, particularly after the murder of John
Lennon.
According to Cuban Information Archives, Perdomo was also known as
"Joaquin Sanjenis," and "Sam Jenis." He was mostly known as an
anti-Castro Cuban exile and a member of Brigade 2506 during the Bay of
Pigs Invasion in 1961, a miserably failed CIA operation, which cost
Company Head Allan Dulles his job, and maybe John F. Kennedy his life,
also by a mythic lone gunman, who turned out to play patsy, too. In
fact, during that evening, while Chapman waited hours for Lennon's
return, Perdomo had spoken at length with him about the invasion and
Cuban American politics. Strange topics for strangers, one waiting for a
rock star.
Imagine Perdomo had reason to insist Mark was the man. Perdomo, aka
Sanjenis, had worked side by side, ah yes, with convicted and now
deceased Watergate burglar Frank Sturgis for about a decade on the CIA
payroll. Sturgis misleadingly claimed Joaquin Sanjenis died of natural
causes in 1974. He claimed it was the Company's way of keeping Sanjenis'
anonymity. Perdomo may still be alive, plumbing in some near or far
outpost. There's always work for anonymous men who know how to do what
needs to be done and vanish. Ole!
Imagine Perdomo was so invisible that he wasn't identified by name for
more than six years after Lennon's murder. He was mistakenly referred to
first as Jay Hastings, the bearded, burly desk clerk who worked in the
lobby, and was on duty the night Lennon was killed. In fact, Lennon ran
from the shooter, and collapsed before Hastings and Yoko. This
information is mentioned in the book, The Love You Make: An Insider's
Story of the Beatles, written by one of the group's management team,
Peter Brown -- along with Steven Gains.
"Sanjenis was an opportunistic little man who managed to punch a CIA
meal ticket the rest of his life. Along with Frank Sturgis, he was a
member of Operation 40 -- the secret police of the Cuban invasion
force. The ultrasecret Operation 40 included some nonpolitical,
conservative exile businessmen, but its hard core was made up of
informers, assassins-for-hire, and mob henchmen whose sworn goal was to
make the counterrevolution safe for the comfortable ways of the old
Cuba. They were the elite troops of the old guard within the exile
movement, who made effective alliance with CIA right-wingers.
Imagine the theory we've been told: that Lennon had walked past Chapman,
who was to the right and then rear of him in the dark entryway. If
Chapman had called out, "Mr. Lennon," and John stopped and turned, it
was possible though difficult for him to hit Lennon in the left
shoulder, and then as Lennon turned to flee, to hit him in the upper
left back. Yet Chapman told Judge Dennis Edwards at a sentencing hearing
that he didn't say anything to Lennon, just that he fired.
Imagine a second theory: Perdomo or another operative fired from the
doorway leading to the service elevator, which was at the left of the
walkway and in front of Lennon. There are two series of two shots.
First, two shots hit the left shoulder. As Lennon runs towards the lobby
stairway, two other shots hit his upper left back. Shooting from that
doorway seems a more plausible way to make those hits. Since the autopsy
was not made public, we don't know if three of the five shots exited,
grazed or missed Lennon to hit the glass lobby door.
Imagine crime scene witnesses varied in their accounts of whether or not
Chapman called to Lennon. No convincing evidence was presented that
Chapman had caused Lennon to turn. Also, this wasn't a trial since
Chapman had already confessed. It was simply a sentencing hearing. There
was no official testimony or any witnesses. The case was declared
closed on the night of the murder, and the police report is lacking in
any substantive detail. Yet what it does say is that Chapman was
carrying $2,201.76 in cash when arrested and declared himself
unemployed? You wonder why eyes didn't open at that, and a complete
inquiry wasn't made into the death of a figure like John Lennon. Could
it possibly be a cover-up? Had assassinations liked this ever happened
before?
Imagine and it is impossible to dispute the conclusion that Mark Chapman
was absolutely nothing beyond just another classic patsy on autopilot.

Predictable, Self-Serving Lies

The self-serving lies about Bin Laden are necessary in the eyes of the
perpetrators because they have dug themselves deep. Why? Because on
December 5, 2009, Gordon Duff, Marine Vietnam veteran, and Senior Editor
at Veterans Today, wrote the following;

We know this: Bin Laden always denied any ties to 9/11 and, in fact, has
never been charged in relation to 9/11. He not only denied involvement,
but had done so, while alive, 4 times and had vigorously condemned
those who were involved in the attack.
This is on the public record, public in every free country except ours.
We, instead, showed films made by paid actors, made up to look somewhat
similar to bin Laden, actors who contradicted bin Ladens very public
statements, actors pretending to be bin Laden long after bin Laden’s
death.
For years, we attacked the government of Pakistan for not hunting down
someone everyone knew was dead. Bin Laden’s death hit the newspapers in
Pakistan on December 15, 2001. How do you think our ally felt when they
were continually berated for failing to hunt down and turn over someone
who didn’t exist?
What do you think this did for American credibility in Pakistan and thru
the Islamic world? Were we seen as criminals, liars or simply fools?
Which one is best?
This is also treason.
How does the death of bin Laden and the defeat and dismemberment of Al
Qaeda impact the intelligence assessments, partially based on, not only
bin Laden but Al Qaeda activity in Iraq that,not only never happened but
was now known to have been unable to happen?
How many “Pentagon Pundits,” the retired officers who sold their honor
to send us to war for what is now known to be domestic political dirty
tricks and not national security are culpable in these crimes?
To me lying and sending men to their deaths based on lies is treason.
Falsifying military intelligence and spending billions on unnecessary
military operations for political reasons is an abomination. Consider
this, giving billions in contracts to GOP friends who fill campaign
coffers, and doing so based on falsified intelligence is insane.
We spent 8 years chasing a dead man, spending billions, sending FBI
agents, the CIA, Navy Seals, Marine Force Recon, Special Forces, many to
their deaths, as part of a political campaign to justify running
American into debt, enriching a pack of political cronies and war
profiteers and to puff up a pack of Pentagon peacocks and their White
house draft dodging bosses.
How many laws were pushed thru because of a dead man?
How many hundreds were tortured to find a dead man?
How many hundreds died looking for a dead man?
How many billions were spent looking for a dead man?
Every time Bush, Cheney and Rumsfeld stood before troops and talked
about hunting down the dead bin Laden, it was a dishonor. Lying to men
and women who put their lives on the line is not a joke.
Who is going to answer to the families of those who died for the politics and profit tied to the Hunt for Bin Laden?

Needless to say, all the toes that Duff stepped on have responded and
anybody who is informed is deeply disappointed by the failure to engage a
reasonable conversation.

Preserving The Legacy

Chapter Thirteen

From Hiss to Whitewater

The Cold War was actually very
Hot -it claimed real lives and it evoked the common prejudices, hates
and fears that all wars evoke. Secretively waged, the atrocities
that it produced were also very real.Like
trench warfare, the surefire consequence of deeply entrenched
prejudices is death and destruction. Deliberately cultivated prejudice,
sprung from the view that diplomacy is a futile avenue for peace,
produced a rigid, self-defining, Cold war agenda which made targets of
the very best [the objective and the independent-minded] and often
propelled the careers of the very worst [the ideologically
inclined demagogue] .
World War I was followed by the Treaty of Versailles, the imposed
peace treaty that allegedly sowed the seed that produced a tyrant like
Hitler, and the smouldering ashes of the second World War were still hot
when the spectre of the Cold War emerged.
Dominated by hysteria over the Soviet-American rivalry, the Cold War
produced an intense degree of emotion, conflict, controversy, fear,
paranoia and hatred that divided Americans into two opposing camps -one
leaned towards the effort to achieve peace through international
cooperation, the other towards the demand to achieve peace through
military confrontation.
The Soviet impulse to spread Communism exasperated anti-Communist
hysteria and facilitated the opportunity to exploit fear and paranoia
through the deliberate exaggeration about the "other side's" capacity to
spread Communism. Preaching the need to be more violent, more ruthless
and more secretive than the Communists themselves, Cold War zealots
routinely violated individual human rights and the Constitution, in an
anti-Communist crusade which claimed the lives of some of the very best
and very brightest.The
casualties of the effort to outwit the "evil empire" by deploying
totalitarian tactics are people like John F. Kennedy, Robert F. Kennedy,
Martin Luther King Jr. and John Lennon.
Having created an atmosphere which ultimately hinged upon peculiar
delusions rather than upon democratic ideals, Cold War zealots declared
war on Communists abroad and on people erroneously deemed to be
subversive, at home. The
undeclared civil war captured widespread attention in the 1950's, when
Republican Senator Joseph McCarthy claimed that 205 members of the
State Department were members of the American Communist party.
McCarthy's unproven charges were either a delusion or a publicity hoax
which sought to generate support for his crusade against Communism. McCarthyites
branded, targeted, and destroyed people not because of anything they
had done, but for what they believed in, and as long as they
successfully manufactured fear and hysteria, they were in a position to
exploit it. McCarthy was ultimately discredited, but people who had
supported him and who shared his views soldiered on and tyrants
like Richard Nixon and J. Edgar Hoover kept the McCarthyite spirit
alive.It was in fact
Richard Nixon who had actually ushered in the McCarthy era when he
targeted and destroyed the promising career of Alger Hiss. A highly
respected State Department official since 1936, Hiss was branded a
Communist because he did not manifest the brand of ignorance and
paranoia that McCarthy had tried to popularize.
In 1945, Alger Hiss was the Secretary-General of the United Nations
Conference on International Organization, and like most Americans, he
embraced the belief that the United Nations was the best hope for world
peace. When the San Fransisco conference worked out the United Nations
Charter, Hiss articulated the general intention when he said, "we had
high hopes that disputes could be settled in advance so that the
Assembly would be what Americans called the town meeting of the world.
The United Nations promised peace. But in a more nationalistic sense, it
appealed because it was here in the United States". In
retrospect, the San Fransisco conference controversy foreshadowed the
Cold War at home, because instead of fulfilling the promise of the
United Nations charter, leaders like Hiss were targeted and destroyed by
zealots like Richard Nixon. If the antagonism between the United States
and the Soviet Union made it difficult to encourage peace through the
United Nations, the antagonism between Cold War zealots and advocates
who tried to promote peace through the United Nations, made it
impossible because the undeclared civil war at home, derailed a
meaningful, peace progress.
In 1947, Hiss became an even bigger target when he took office as
president of the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace. It is not
at all surprising that Cold war zealots branded him an agent of
communism because that's what they did to anybody who did not share
their delusions.
On August 3, 1948, Whittaker Chambers, a writer and editor for Time
magazine, appeared before the House Committee on Un-American Activities
(HUAC), to publicly claim that Hiss belonged to a group of government
employees who were part of an underground Communist party group. A
self-professed cloak-and-dagger expert who claimed to have been an
espionage agent for the Soviet Union during the 1930's, Chambers
was a bizarre character (like Anne Coulter) who achieved celebrity
status by stroking the prejudices of ideologues like Richard Nixon and
J. Edgar Hoover.
Indeed, when Hoover and Nixon were upset over the fact that the House
Committee on Un-American Activities did not have and did not merit any
credibility, Chambers rescued the imminent dissolution of the otherwise
discredited committee, by targeting Alger Hiss. Anti-Communist crusaders claimed that internal Communisim
was a serious threat to the national security of the United States and
that they required a reputable un-American Activities committee, to
purge the imagined threat that domestic Communism posed.
President Truman dismissd the evident paranoia of domestic spy chasers
and acknowledged the inherent stupidity of un-American hearings
that simply diverted attention away from domestic issues. Nixon and
Hoover set out to prove that Truman's views were contemptuous, and they
set out to "prove" him wrong through the anti-Hiss crusade.
The product of the fierce and relentless campaign to brand Hiss a
Communist produced a failed prosecution, and Nixon therefore called for
a probe to examine Judge Samuel H. Kaufman's fitness for the bench.
Needless to say, it is Richard Nixon who failed every test of fitness,
and in retrospect, it is quite astounding that he managed to destroy
Hiss through the trumped-up charge that branded him a spy.
The suspiciously vague allegations were factually bankrupt. They did not
prove that Hiss was a Communist but simply attacked his credibility by
calling him a liar. Hiss had allegedly lied about having taken
classified State Department papers and given them to Chambers and his
recollection about an alleged meeting with Chambers was also challenged.
The first perjury charge ended in a hung jury, the second trial
registered a conviction and the reputation of the grotesque
un-American Activities committee was restored -a remarkable fraud
where Alger Hiss was sentenced to five years in prison because the
hysterics of Richard Nixon and J. Edgar Hoover managed to pervert
justice.
At the outset, a young, cocky Hiss [since he was innocent and could not
have possibly imagined what lay in store for him] casually dismissed
the charges that branded him a spy and made his accusers look as
ignorant as they in fact were. His accusers did not merit a shred
of credibility, but if you keep manufacturing evidence without being
held accountable, the outcome is quite predictable.
Initially, Whittaker
Chambers, Hiss's public accuser, did not produce documents to back up
his allegations, but when it became clear that the campaign to destroy
Hiss demanded "proof", it is not surprising that it was fraudulently
produced. It did not
take any more effort than to pass on State Department documents to a
bizarre character like Chambers, who falsely claimed that he had
received them from Hiss himself.
According to popular mythology, the statute of limitations to
prosecute Hiss for espionage had expired and that is why he was charged
with perjury. According to anybody who understands J. Edgar Hoover, Hiss
was targeted because he did share the prejudicial opinions of his
political adversaries, and the claim that J. Edgar Hoover combated
Communist spies through perjury charges is extremely amusing.
Richard Nixon gloated over the persecution of Alger Hiss through the following, predictable rant;

we must give
complete and unqualified support to the FBI and to J. Edgar Hoover, its
chief. Mr. Hoover recognized the Communist threat long before other top
officials
recognized its existence. The FBI in this trial did an amazingly
effective job running down trails over 10 years old and in developing
the evidence which made the prosecution successful.1

In fact, Richard Nixon was publicly applauding the fact that J. Edgar
Hoover routinely perverted the law. Czar Hoover was clearly nothing
beyond a single-minded fanatic who routinely "developed evidence" which
recognized his peculiar delusions, he did not convict criminals. The
astounding paranoia that motivated the overzealous prosecution of Alger
Hiss was exposed when Hoover appeared before HUAC and said:

...
once public opinion is thoroughly aroused as it is today, the fight
against Communism is well on its way. Victory will be assured once
Communists are identified and exposed, because the public will take the
first step in quarantining them so they can do no harm. Communism, in
reality is not a political party. It is a way of life -an evil and
malignant way of life. It reveals a condition akin to disease that
spreads like an epidemic and like an epidemic a quarantine is necessary
to keep it from infecting the Nation.2

In
1988, Alger Hiss wrote a credible book which promotes the claim
that he was framed by his accusers and History absolutely supports the
fact that he was simply a victim of an illegitimate, anti-Communist
witch-hunt. In fact, the paranoia and the lies that targeted people like
Alger Hiss are not exclusive. Thousands upon thousands of Americans who
were erroneously branded "security risks" were in fact victims of
deliberately manufactured anti-Communist hysteria and they were clearly
not dangerous, threatening, subversive spies, as branded and targeted by
J.Edgar Hoover and Richard Nixon. Nixon routinely exploited the Red Scare
and in 1952, he emphasized the fact that Hiss had been successfully
prosecuted, to encourage anti-Communist hysteria and to ridicule
political adversaries like Adlai Stevenson.
Like Hiss, Stevenson did not share the paranoia that motivated Nixon
and his cronies and instead of embracing the anti-Communist crusade, he
declared war against poverty, injustice and inequality. Richard
Nixon used the Hiss case to justify anti-Communist paranoia and to
attack Stevenson for not sharing his concerns. Campaigning in Augusta,
Maine on September 6, 1952, Nixon said:

I
think that many good Americans are concerned by the way in which
President Truman and Governor Stevenson have both attempted to ridicule
and pooh pooh the Communist threat within the United States. Well all
will recall that President Truman referred to the Alger Hiss case as a
red herring. And now Governor Stevenson comes along and refers to the
Communists of the United States as phantoms amongst ourselves. Now I
have in my hands here some of the papers that came out of that famous
pumpkin that Whittaker Chambers had on his farm. Hundreds of pages of
secret State Department documents. They were turned over by Alger Hiss
to Chambers, and then they were turned over to the Russians.

Now that the Cold War is over and Communist propaganda no longer
prevails, the Russians confirmed the fact that Hiss was not a spy and
that he never turned over any State Department papers to them.
Regardless, during the 1956 campaign, Nixon waved his so-called
evidence and used it like a club to beat up on the Democrats. In
one particularly grotesque photo-opportunity, Sherlock Nixon, with
magnifying glass in hand, shook his head in disgust as he examined a
microfilm that Hiss had allegedly turned over to the Russians.
Nixon's anti-Communist crusade dominated publicity and Stevenson's
reasoned appeal that "what counts is not just what we are against but
what we are for" was drowned out by the bellow to declare war against
communism.
How did Nixon's vulgar, McCarthyite rhetoric survived effective opposition. In the campaign of 1956, Richard Nixon said:

Just
let me say this last word. Regardless of what happens, I'm going to
continue this fight. I'm gonna campaign up and down in America until we
drive all the crooks and the Communists and those who defend them out of
Washington.

Indeed,
Richard Nixon spend all his time and effort developing plots to "drive
all crooks and the Communists and those who defend them out of
Washington". The only glitch of course is that it was Richard Nixon who
was the crook and the tyrant who deployed totalitarian security methods
to target his enemies. Tragically, Richard Nixon was what he publicly
opposed, and his enemies proved to be as relentless as he was. On
October 29, 1992, the frail eighty-seven year old Hiss, armed with
further evidence that he was simply a target of overzealous
McCarthyite's, claimed that the historical record would ultimately
absolve him, and it has.
The Americans who were targeted and destroyed by the un-American
Activities witch hunts were victims, not criminals, and it is their
accusers, not they, who have everything to be embarrassed about. Hiss
was convicted for perjury on the strength of the allegation that he lied
to the Grand Jury about having given State Department documents to
Whittaker Chambers and that he denied having met with Chambers after
January 1, 1937. But with cohorts like Nixon and Hoover, the anti-Hiss truth squad
was a group of felons, liars and fraud artists who routinely perverted
justice and Richard Nixon himself betrays the fact that the entire
campaign against Hiss was mounted upon the Nixonian spirit to evade the
law, when he said

Because
of Truman's executive order we were not able to get any direct help [in
the campaign to "prosecute" Hiss] from J. Edgar Hoover or the FBI.
However, we had some informal contacts with a lower-level agent that
proved helpful in our investigations.3

TRANSLATION: The campaign to prosecute Hiss was a product, not of an
accountable, authorized legal network, but of the secretive, informal
network that Hoover and Nixon used to fraudulently destroy their
enemies. Working through the apparatus that David Wise called the invisible government,
compulsive spies like Howard Hunt defined their existence by the zeal
to destroy Communism and routinely engaged illegal, clandestine,
political operations,
of the sort that destroyed Alger Hiss' political career. What makes
covert, illegal operatives like Hunt especially significant in terms of
the Hiss case is that they had access to the sort of documents which
were used to fraudulently prosecute him. Even as late as 1971, Hunt
forged top-secret State Department telegrams, for the purpose of
distorting the historical record. Hunt was a predictable extremist who
joined the CIA in 1947 or 1948, and his only legacy is the slew of
undetected illegalities he managed to get away with, between the
occasional blunders that exposed his criminal operations. In
recent years, much has been written about a so-called unbroken chain of
events which stretch from the Kennedy assassination in Dallas, to the
Watergate scandal that cost Nixon the presidency. It is indeed a link
with a solid foundation. Like most zealots, Nixon and his cronies were
very disturbed by the Kennedy presidency and they shared the commitment
to do whatever they could, to satisfy their paranoia-motivated vision
of the country. The initial bone of contention was policy over Cuba,
until Kennedy started "messing around" in Southeast Asia. As Nixon
records in his memoirs:

I
was disturbed by some of Kennedy's early foreign policy actions. During
his first week in office, he was confronted with a crisis involving
Communist aggression in Laos. After an initial show of strength in one
of his first press conferences, he pulled back and ended up
accepting a supposedly neutral government that everyone knew would be
heavily influenced by the Communists. I decided that it was time for the
administration's honeymoon to end, and I agreed to give a speech before
the Executives Club of Chicago on May 5, 196l.4

In retrospect, the telling fact that Richard Nixon began his campaign to
oppose the "dangerous" foreign policy course that Kennedy charted is
like one of the many smoking guns which links him directly to the to the plot to assassinate President John F. Kennedy.Indeed, Nixon was an
extremely relentless, unethical adversary who routinely targeted and
destroyed any political opponent who failed to share his prejudicial
opinions, and JFK was one of many casualties.When
Kennedy was murdered, Richard Nixon and cronies like Watergate burglar
Howard Hunt, did not share in the grief of the nation, they shared the
need to produce an alibi to prove that they were in no way responsible
for the assassination of John F. Kennedy.
On the day of the assassination, Richard Nixon was in Dallas surveying
the assassination site, and according to his recollection immediately
after the assassination, he was not in Dallas.5
The convenient memory lapse is sustained by the fact that Nixon was
only in Dallas Texas until 9:05 a.m., on the 22nd of November 1963,
having landed at New York's Idlewild at 1:00 p.m., (currently, Kennedy
International Airport).
In 1978, Nixon's memory improved, as his memoirs disclose the following:

Early on the morning of November 22 on the way to the Dallas airport I
saw the flags displayed along the motorcade route for the presidential
visit.6

Nixon
further claimed that he called J. Edgar Hoover on the 22nd of November,
to ask if one of those "right-wing nuts" was responsible for murdering
President Kennedy. According to Nixon, Hoover's reply was "No, it was a
Communist."
In other words, in a
single day, on November 22nd, 1963, Richard Nixon and J. Edgar Hoover
had not only reviewed "the crime scene", they had also identified the
"criminal", and that is a remarkable admission of guilt on both their
parts.
Hoover and Nixon, who were both in Texas on the 21st of November 1963,
and in retrospect, that is not at all surprising, is it? As a matter of
fact, in a vain attempt to prove Oswald's violent temperment, Hoover and
Nixon had even promoted the ludicrous claim that "Oswald had been
planning to kill me [Richard Nixon] when I visited Dallas and that only
with great difficulty had she [Marina Oswald] managed to keep him in the
house to prevent him from doing so."7
It doesn't get any stranger than that -you need a good psychiatrist to be able to fully explain that delusion of grandeur.
Marina Oswald supported this hoax under the threat of deportation, but
the suggestion that an intelligent former Marine like Lee Harvey Oswald
contemplated the assassination of diametrically opposed politicians is
quite preposterous. To be sure, Hoover and Nixon manufactured the
fiction they thought they required to cover up the truth about the
assassination of JFK, and as we all know. "it's not the crime, it's the
cover up, stupid" that exposes the truth.
Nixon crony
Howard Hunt was also obsessed by the determination to counter
reports that he too was in Dallas Texas on the 22nd of November 1963.
According to Hunt, he was not in his CIA office in Langley Virginia but
with friends in Washington D.C., "And since it is a law of physics that
you can't be in two places at the same time", Hunt boldly asserts, "I
was not in Dallas Texas." Alright, we get the point. But most Americans
are not obsessed by the need to develop alibies to "prove" that they did
not murder the President of the United States.Nixon
and Hunt were both violent anti-Communist crusaders with a penchant for
plotting the assassination of their political enemies. Two of the
earliest and most persistent advocates who promoted assassination plots
against Castro, Hunt and Nixon were essentially the trusted allies of
rogue spies, their rhetoric was not typical, wishful thinking. Quoted in
the New York Times on November 22nd after having made a timely
evacuation from Dallas, Richard Nixon publicly recognized his
anti-Kennedy zeal through the bold assertion. "I am going to work as
hard as I can to get the Kennedys out of there. We can't afford four
more years of that kind of administration."
The day before he made that comment, (November 21, 1963) Hoover and
Nixon were at the home of Clint Murchison in Dallas Texas, the oil
tycoon who backed Lyndon Johnson, and that certainly set the political
stage for the next 8 years,
Nixon did not run for the Presidency in 1964. He didn't want to oppose
Lyndon Johnson, just Kennedy, and that ultimately betrays the bipartisan
collusion that made it practically impossible to expose the truth.Political pundits
claim that Richard Nixon didn't run because he didn't think he could win
in 1964, and that is certainly the joke of the last century. As a
matter of fact, the March 23, 1964, issue of Newsweek betrayed
Nixon's overinflated ego where he was quoted extolling his own abilities
in the following terms: "I feel there is no man who can make the
case generally [against the Johnson Administration] more effectively
than I can... I have the national name, I have some experience."
Astute reporters noted the bizarre relationship between Richard Nixon
and Lyndon Johnson, and in 1968, it prompted Hugh Sydney of Life
Magazine to write: "Would Lyndon Johnson really mind terribly much if
there were a Republican victory? It is curious how the thought recurs in
these bastions 1,000 miles apart. There have been so many little things
to suggest it and no big things to deny it." Hugh Sydney further noted
that Nixon's visit to the LBJ ranch was friendly, intimate and intense,
while Humphrey's visit was an untrumpeted affair. 8
Party politics should have made them adversaries, but the Kennedy
assassination and the Vietnam war had made them allies, and the media
was understandably perplexed.
Moreover, Richard Nixon believed that Dean Rusk was "one of the ablest
and most honorable men ever to serve as Secretary of State," and he did
not have to worry about America's foreign policy going astray in 1964
because Kennedy, who essentially claimed the right to veto Rusk when he
disagreed with him, was dead. 9 John Ehrlichman further confirmed the fact that Hoover and Nixon were behind-the -scenes, policy activists when he said;

Hoover
and Nixon had kept in touch during all the year Nixon was out of
office. Rose Mary Woods had been Hoover's Nixon contact for the exchange
of information and advice between them. Whenever Nixon travelled abroad
as a private citizen, the FBI agents who posed as "legal attaches" in
U.S. embassies were instructed by Hoover to look after Nixon. Hoover fed
Nixon information during those years via Cartha De Loach, and through
Lou Nichols, a retired Bureau assistant director who had become a
distillery executive. But Hoover was more than a source of information
-he was a political advisor to whom Nixon listened.10

Despite
the popular belief that shrewd political acumen kept Nixon out of the
White House race in 1964, the evidence clearly indicates that
behind-the-scenes scheming between cronies dictated the Nixon decision
to "wait it out".
The Kennedy assassination produced a consensus that crossed party lines
and was secretively linked by the relentless zeal to control the foreign
policy of the United States and the common ground that united
anti-Communist zealots was the obsession to do whatever was necessary
to facilitate the opportunity to prosecute the Vietnam war. This is why
Richard Nixon facilitated the 1964 Democratic landslide victory of
"co-patriot", Lyndon Johnson, despite the fact that he thought that he
was the Republican who had the ability to efectively oppse Johnson.
And so, like the convoluted plot of a Shakespearean play, the
Nixon-assisted Lyndon Johnson landslide foreshadowed the dramatic new
beginning in Vietnam -the introduction of the combat divisions that
Kennedy had vigorously opposed. Nixon's relentless commitment to the war
was long and hard. In 1954, President Eisenhower wrote to Diem to
emphasize Washington's determination to keep the Communists out and
since then, his overzealous Vice President Richard Nixon was determined
to do whatever he perceived to be necessary to defeat the Communists in
Southeast Asia.
The profound philosophical conflict between Richard Nixon's
declaration of war against Communism and Kennedy's tendency to focus
upon the root of a problem was glaringly exposed during the
Kennedy/Nixon debate in 1960. Regarding Cuba, for example, Nixon
believed that the Eisenhower administration of which he was a part of
had followed a proper course and that the American effort to free Cuba
would succeed. Kennedy criticized Nixon for having paved the conflict as
early as 1955 and for having failed to use the influence of the United
States to persuade Batista to hold free elections in 1957 and 1958.
Kennedy claimed that American policy in Cuba ignored the needs of the
Latin Americans and supported the cause of a corrupt dictator rather
than the cause of freedom.
Nixon view of freedom did not match Kennedy's. As far as he was
concerned, only those who violently opposed Communism without
reservation, were viewed to be on the side of freedom. After the Bay of
Pigs fiasco, Kennedy was in a quandary over what to do about Cuba, and
he sought everybody's advise including the opinion of Richard Nixon.
Nixon didn't hesitate to take the opportunity to encourage a full-scale
military invasion of Cuba. In his own words:

I
would find a proper legal cover and I would go in. There are several
justifications that could be used, like protecting American citizens
living in Cuba and defending our base in Guatahamo. I believe that the
most important thing to do at this point is to get Castro and communism
out of Cuba.11

This contrast over contrast between
The extreme foreign policy divergence between Nixon and Kennedy is clear
and obvious. Kennedy used his intelligence in effort to contain
military involvement whereas Richard Nixon entertained "proper legal
cover" war plans. Regarding Vietnam, the glaring distortion behind
the claim that Johnson and Nixon inherited Kennedy's war, is a product
of excessive propaganda and foolish punditry. In actual fact, Nixon,
Johnson, Hoover and the like, "engineered" the Vietnam war.Beyond
Washington, the power that Nixon and Hoover cultivated was not strictly
official.
The home of Clint Murchison for example, where Hoover and Nixon met on
November 21, 1963 to plan the aftermath of the Kennedy assassination was
in itself a powerhouse of influence. Murchison, a wealthy oil baron
in Dallas Texas, owned everything from the Dallas Cowboys to
publishing house, Henry Holt and Company, to the racetrack where Hoover
placed his $100 bets, to the luxurious Del Charro Motel in California
where Hoover vacationed annually free of charge, to oil-gas interests...
As a corrupt benefactor of the "business climate" that J. Edgar Hoover
encouraged, it is not surprising that Murchison's operations were
evidently tailor-made to suit the fancy of Director Hoover.
Murchison was the recipient of huge loans from Teamster's pension funds,
and since Hoover shaped the politically correct, dissent-free
membership of the Teamsters by blacklisting the so-called un-Americans
within, the patriotism that Hoover defined was based on unsavory
collusion.Like Hoover
and Nixon, Mafia boss Carlos Marcello was also a Murchison associate
(which explains Hoover's refusal to acknowledge the existence of
organized crime) and this is the nature of the wealthy allies who
provided Nixon and Hoover the kind of power, independence and
unaccountability that the Mafia demanded.
It is therefore not surprising to note that the Murchison financial
conglomerate was a politically motivated empire which "fronted"
clandestine schemes of the sort that Nixon and Hoover thrived upon, and
the nature of the meeting at Murchison headquarters in Dallas Texas on
the 21st of November 1963, is therefore quite understandable, in
retrospect.The
biggest known financial conglomerate which served as a front for
clandestine intelligence operations was the empire of Howard Hughes,
and like Murchison, all his associates were "pure patriots" -men like
Howard Hunt, Gordon Liddy, Richard Nixon, J. Edgar Hoover, James Jesus
Angleton...
The private resources
of "patriots" like Hughes sheltered them from public accountability,
not historical scrutiny. These people were so secretive and so paranoid,
the following epigram in a novel by Howard Hunt manifests their total
withdrawl from every sense of genuine loyalty:

It is in
the political agent's interest to betray all the parties who use him and
to work for them all at the same time, so that he may move freely and
penetrate everywhere.

These
elusive spies initially engaged the effort to kill Castro, and when
that did not pan out, they justified their failure by blaming it on
others, specifically, the President John F. Kennedy, because he did not
endorse their fanaticism.
It is therefore not surprising that they eventually turned their
attention (and their resources) to assassinate perceived political
enemies like John F. Kennedy. The transference of the perceived need to
assassinate Castro was very clear and obvious. By the fall of 1963, the
Kennedy administration denied Cuban exiles and right wing zealots the
opportunity to continue to use the United States as the training ground
to mount an anti-Castro paramilitary assault, and Cold War zealots began
to transfer their wrath to the so-called Communist at home, the
President of the United States.
Howard Hunt appears to have spent a lifetime embracing anti-Kennedy
plots. As late as 1971, long after Kennedy's death, he forged Vietnam
cables, in effort to distort his legacy, blacken his reputation and
ultimately conceal the fact that Kennedy was murdered because he
actually opposed the zeal to embrace a futile, military engagement in
Southeast Asia.When
Howard Hughes died, Howard Hunt's fellow former CIA counterintelligence
chief James Jesus Angleton stepped forward to praise a "co-patriot" in
the following words:

Howard
Hughes! Where his country's interests were concerned, no one knew his
target better. We were fortunate to have him. He was a great patriot.12

Angleton,
the CIA's first head of counterintelligence held on to his position for
twenty-seven years before scandal claimed his career. The so called spook's spook
was so secretive that he has attained a legendary reputation within as
well as outside of the CIA. When Hoover died, it was Angleton who was
reportedly spotted moving boxes and loading them into the trunk of his
car before driving away with all the dirty laundry. After the death of
former FBI agent Guy Banister, the unofficial head of operations against
Castro, Hoover's FBI cleaned out his office.
The informal alliance between crusading zealots and the government
limited public exposure and J. Edgar Hoover, the Czar of corruption,
successfully evaded public accountability. Until 1947, American
intelligence was concentrated in the hands of the FBI and the military
and that gave Hoover the head start he needed to be in the loop of
practically every covert operation. When Harry Truman created the CIA,
Hoover wanted to be the head of the newly created spy agency as well as
the Director of the FBI and while he was officially denied the
official privilege of being America's spymaster, in practise, he
actually was. Hoover tightened his grip upon the intelligence
community through covert alliances with spooks like James Jesus
Angleton, he did not seek Truman's approval to access CIA resources. And
when they required an even deeper cover, they used the Mafia (which was
not formally recognized so it didn't even exist as far as law
enforcement was concerned) and wealthy patrons like Howard Hughes, to
evade accountability, but their operations were not exclusively below
the radar of public disclosure.
In 1967, a presidential directive created the joint CIA/FBI
operation which involved Angleton's counterintelligence staff and was
charged with the responsibility to determine whether the anti-Vietnam
war movement was foreign sponsored. By 1971, the CIA was infiltrating
protest groups. Like Hoover's FBI, the CIA was used for political
purposes and it engaged clandestine schemes that involved wiretaps,
mail opening, break-ins and planting bugs. At the behest of Lyndon
Johnson, the routine abuse of power that Hoover's FBI practised was
transplanted to the CIA by James Jesus Angleton.
Lyndon Johnso was fortunate enough to survive this abuse, but precedent
did not spare Richard Nixon. When Special Prosecutor Archibald Cox
was assigned the responsibility to investigate the Nixon White House,
Nixon repeatedly stonewalled the investigation and ordered the Attorney
General of the United States to fire Cox. When Richardson refused,
Nixon predictably appealed to his perverted views about the national
security interest to say, "I'm sorry that you choose to prefer your
purely personal commitments to the national security." Fortunately,
Richardson and Cox were motivated more by an interest in law and order
and less by the abuses that Johnson and Nixon had routinely deployed.
Undaunted, Nixon ordered the FBI to seal off the office of the
special prosecutor. After the Hiss case, Nixon had evidently developed
the notion that he could break any law and get away with it as long as
he appealed to what he termed national security interests, and that
became quite clear and obvious in 1972 when he compared the indefensible
Watergate scandals to the Hiss case, because in his mind, it was all
the same -a game of creating appearances and destroying political
enemies.
Nixon betrayed the ugly fact that Watergate and the Hiss case were
ultimately comparable at an impromptu news conference on October 5, 1972
when he said that the FBI Watergate probe made the 1948 investigation
of Alger Hiss seem like a "Sunday school exercise."13
The entire truth about Watergate was never exposed and Nixon is quite
content that it never will, because, in his own words, "the factual
truth [about Watergate] could probably never be completely
reconstructed, because each of us had become involved in different ways
and no one's knowledge at any given time exactly duplicated
anyone else's."14Nixon
believes that the judgment of history depends on who writes it, and he
evidently thinks that the truth has been sufficiently buried deep enough
to deny the opportunity to expose it. Hehas no concept of the fact that
the only purpose of genuine history is to describe an event as it
happened, and that by definition, somebody who uses his or her perverted
sense of the national security in effort to conceal the truth is a
propagandist, not a historian.
It is no surprise that a sufficient number of Nixon apologists,
propagandists and/or incompetent historians have been deployed in effort
to revive the reputation of the disgraced Richard Nixon, but the deeper
one probes, the worst Nixon becomes.
In particular, Nixon allies like Howard Hunt, Gordon Liddy and
Frank Sturgis have clearly established a track record of plotting murder
in effort to destroy their political enemies, and their well
established reputation is solidly documented. In fact, the relationship
between Sturgis and Nixon stretches back to the Eisenhower years when
they were co-patriots in the struggle to assassinate Castro. The bizarre
assassination plots they engaged makes the assassination of John F.
Kennedy the "Sunday school picnic" of their covert operations. For
example, they had tried to brainwash Castro's mistress, in effort to
turn her into a CIA-trained assassin. The had even tried to murder
Castro through a poisoned cigar, merely one of an string of the strange
plots that Sturgis enthusiastically embraced. What the public has been
told about Watergate is absolutely uneventful, compared to a thorough probe of the players involved and the magnitude of their covert operations.
Sturgis had initially supported the revolution and fought side by side
with Castro, but anti-Communist hysteria turned the former object of an
honorable revolution into a target of execution. It is an interesting
history that is easy to confuse, because the details/the nuances are not
adequately understood, In 1963 President Kennedy declared war
on the paramilitary operations of anti-Castro extremists and they
responded with disdainful comments like: "In Florida, where we were once
welcome, we must now operate in the hills of Escambray. We are watched
like criminals." By the fall of 1963, former soldiers-of-fortune like
Sturgis, who had expected the cooperation of their government, were
primed to oppose a new enemy -not Castro, the Communist abroad, but
Kennedy, the so-called Communist at home. The war between
John F. Kennedy and anti-Castro exiles made Nixon allies like Frank
Sturgis lifetime operatives in the plot to cover up the truth about
murder of president Kennedy. In 1977, the New York Times reported that
Frank Sturgis was arrested for threatening a woman to prevent her
from testifying before the Assassinations Committee. Marita Lorenz
told police that three days before the assassination of John F. Kennedy,
she accompanied Sturgis and Oswald on a drive from Miami to Dallas.
Under the circumstances, it is easier to believe that Sturgis was a
player in the effort to frame Oswald than to doubt his involvement.
After all, this is the same person who had tried to brainwash Castro's
mistress into becoming a trained assassin for the CIA. Framing Oswald
was "a Sunday school picnic" in comparison.
Serious researchers no longer doubt the Kennedy assassination
involvement of Watergate burglars Hunt and Sturgis. According to
correspondent Ted Szulz, "Hunt was serving in Mexico City at the time of
Oswald's supposed visit to the Cuban Embassy. Hunt denies this."15
Szulz had no motive to lie. In 1975, an anonymous sender in Mexico City
send U.S. researchers the following letter dated November 8, 1963,
proven to be the authentic writing of Lee Harvey Oswald:

Dear Mr. Hunt,I
would like information concerning [sic] my position. I am asking only
for information. I am asking that we discuss the matter fully before any
steps are taken by me or anyone else.Thank You, Lee Harvey Oswald.

Just two weeks prior to the Kennedy assassination, Hunt was evidently
seeking to "employ" Lee Harvey Oswald in some sort of operation that
was too fuzzy for Oswald to understand, and isn't that because he
was "just a patsy"?
When Hunt, Sturgis and Liddy bugged the offices of the Democratic
National Committee and made their escape without detection, the game was
over -no detection, no crime. It is only when the microphones they had
planted failed to work that they went back and got caught. Nixon's
cronies were saboteurs and intelligence operatives who were versed in
the art of clandestine operations, and they routinely got away with
murder because they covered their tracks.
It is popular to assert that they were incompetent amateurs because
they got caught -but Watergate was the exception. The criminal
operations of former FBI and CIA agents Liddy and Hunt and their Cuban
cohorts did not begin or end with Watergate -they were essentially
career criminals who routinely sabotaged American domestic politics in
the name of the national security. The fact that they broke into
buildings, planted bugs, and photographed documents in effort to
re-elect Nixon, is not evidence of a "third rate burglary" as it is
commonly misrepresented. It is the tip of the iceburg.
John Dean did not betray Nixon, as is commonly asserted, he
controlled the damage. The Nixon White House had managed to subvert
independent disclosure by providing John Dean the opportunity to coach
witnesses. When you are absolutely guilty, the best defence is to
contain the consequences, and that is what John Dean did for Richard
Nixon. Retired FBI agent Angelo Lano exposed the fact that the FBI
investigation had been compromised when he said:

We had
no idea that John Dean was getting the information. And what John Dean
was doing with the information is circumventing our investigation. Every
avenue that we tried, John was either there or was about to approach
somebody -debrief them and I don't know
exactly what he said to them -whether he told them don't say this or
don't say that.16

Working
closely with acting director of the FBI Pat Gray, Dean cultivated a
position where he selectively exposed only what he could not cover up
rather than everything he knew. As Lano explains:

What was
happening was, the acting director Pat Gray, insisted that certain
material that we were gathering during the course of the investigation
be made available to him either on a daily basis or every seven days, in
the form of a report -and that report would consist of hundreds of
documents. Unbeknownst to us, at the time it was happening, he was
furnishing the results of interviews that were being conducted all
across the country, as well as in the D.C. area, to John Dean. And of
course, John Dean knew every step that we were about to take.17

Those who claim that John Dean betray Richard Nixon do not understand
the fact that he essentially protected him by putting on a show that
effectively blocked a substantive probe of Richard Nixon's massive,
criminal operations.
Needless to say, the details that Dean did not expose were far more
serious than the so-called "third rate burglary," the term commonly used
to dismiss the seriousness of Watergate. The White House Transcripts, the New York Times
release about the Watergate tapes, provide some insight about matters
that Dean failed to disclose. In particular, an obscure quotation which
ties him directly to the Kennedy assassination cover up, reads as
follows:

Sept. 16. At a news conference, President
Nixon says, would remind all concerned that the way we got into Vietnam
was through.. the complicity in the murder of Diem.18

This
distortion which places blame for the Vietnam war on the assassination
of Diem, (rather than on the Kennedy assassination which provided the
opportunity to engage combat troops) betrays the organized deception
that Howard Hunt also engaged, when he forged diplomatic cables to
create the false impression that Kennedy had ordered the murder of Diem.
The attempt to create false documentation to "prove" that
assassination of Diem is responsible for American involvement in Vietnam
war, was supposed to cover up the truth about the assassination of
President Kennedy, but it has not.
Nixon always invented a delusion or a cover story to misrepresent
actions like his obsession to reverse Kennedy's morally grounded foreign
policy agenda and every explanation was contrary to reason. He called
himself a peacemaker, but he waged war. The U.S. dropped more than 7
million tons of bombs on Indochina -nearly three times the tonnage
dropped in World War II and Korea combined, and he bragged because...?
He claimed that he never obstructed justice but he always did. He
called himself a patriot but he deployed the tactics of a terrorist. He
claimed the duty to protect the national security interests of the
United States but he provoked the greatest constitutional crisis
in American history. The following passage from his diary betrays the
scope of his ignorance, hatred and intolerance:

When I
saw some of the antiwar people and the rest, I'd simply hold up the "V"
or the one thumb up; this really knocks them for a loop because they
think this is their sign. Some of them break into a smile. Others, of
course, just become more hateful. I think as the war recedes as an
issue, some of these people are going to be lost souls. They basically
are haters , they are frustrated, they are alienated-they don't know
what to do with their lives.I think perhaps the saddest group will be
those who are the professors, and particularly the young professors and
the associate professors on the college campuses and even in the high
schools. They wanted to blame somebody else for their own failures to
inspire the students.I can think of those Ivy League presidents
who came to see me after Kent State, and who were saying, please don't
leave the problem to us -I mean let the government do something. None of
them would take any of the responsibility themselves.19

His reference to Kent State and the so-called weak, pitiful professors
who scrambled around Nixon for protection, betrays the psychosis of a
deep and hopeless delusion. At Kent State, students who were
protesting the war in Cambodia were confronted by National Guardsmen [or
Nixon cronies in disguise] who calmly levelled guns, aimed and fired
into a crowd of students. When it was all over, four students were dead,
eleven were wounded, and Richard Nixon appears to be elated because he
evidently thinks that Kent State betrayed "the weakness of the
professors."
It appears as if the hateful Richard Nixon was motivated by the
obsession to make the cost of dissent very clear, but that is not what
freedom is. Jeffrey Glen Miller, one of the victims, had reached the
decision that he would never go to Vietnam to kill, and he wanted to
make his intent clear. He was shot in the head. Bill Schroeder was a
nineteen year old sophomore who was disgusted by the thought of the
senseless killing. He was shot and killed. Sandra Lee Scheuer was filled
with hope, humour and the will to live. She was shot and killed.
Allison Krause was an honour student who despised the fact that
Nixon had called anti-war demonstrators "bums." She was shot and
killed. Richard Nixon was determined to prove that the Vietnam war was a
moral and strategic imperative and anyone who did not agree was weak
and deluded. he responded by defiantly escalating the bombing.
Predictably, he responded to the Kent State massacre by blaming the
protestors, and he made that very clear when he wrote, "When dissent
turns to violence, it invites tragedy."20
There were about five hundred students and about one hundred National
Guardsmen at Kent State. There was no legitimate reason to
indiscriminately fire into a crowd of students without provocation. But
as far as Richard Nixon was concerned, dissent was provocation. The
students threatened to interfere with the bombing of Cambodia, and that
"invited tragedy" that Nixon conveniently justified when he said:
"Public opinion seemed to rally during the weeks after Kent State, when
the military success of the Cambodian operation became increasingly
apparent."21The
astounding, relentless capacity to justify every brutality is
overwhelming. Nixon cited his remarkable gallup poll, 65% approval
rating and the pleasing survey which indicated that 58% blamed
"demonstrating students" for Kent State while only 11% blamed the
National Guard.22
In retrospect, 100% should have blamed Richard Nixon for all the
violence because he was evidently behind every assassination. Nixon and
his cronies were essentially criminals who were motivated by their
national security-inspired delusions, and as far as they were concerned,
Kent State was simply a public relations triumph.
The Watergate scandal forced Nixon to resign and most Americans thought
they had heard the last of Nixon -well they had, but that was only
because Nixon prudently kept a low profile -even though he continued to
carry a big stick. As Nixon biographer Sam Anson has uncovered, Nixon
has had an almost uninterrupted capacity to influence White House
decision making. Code-named the Wizard, Richard Nixon had direct access
to the Ford White House through an elaborate secret communication set
up. Nixon's almost unbroken link to the White House was briefly
interrupted by the Carter administration. He predictably loathed Carter
because he wasn't fanatically anti-Communist.
When Reagan won the election, Nixon's white House power was
omnipotent because Reagan was a hands-off President who gave Nixon and
CIA Director, Bill Casey the opportunity to direct American foreign
policy.
Historian, Sam Anson described the incredible degree of influence that
Nixon exercised over the Reagan White House when he said:

Nixon gets into his office every morning about 7:30. By noon he Will
have made and taken 40 calls, most of them to Washington. First he calls
the White House and talks to (presidential counsellor) Ed Meese,
(national
security adviser) Bud McEarlane, and President Reagan. Then he starts
working the State Department. Everyone from (Secretary of State) George
Schultz on down. He not only gives advice on foreign policy, but on
politics in general. What he says is taken very seriously.23

The
tone of the Reagan era was set during the election campaign, when
Ronald Reagan offered Casey the opportunity to be his campaign manager.
Reagan was in awe of the intelligence spook who organized intelligence
missions behind enemy lines for Eisenhower during World War II and as
soon as Casey joined the campaign, Reagan said: "You're the expert Bill.
Just point me in the right direction and I'll go".24
Richard Nixon, Casey's ideological twin, became the senior partner of
the foreign policy that was shaped in the 1980's. Ronald Reagan was
nothing more than a trusting subject who enthusiastically embraced the
path that Nixon and Casey paved.
Absolute loyalty defined the relationship between Casey and Nixon. In
1970, when anti-war demonstrators disturbed President Nixon, Bill Casey
let it be known that anyone who opposed the war was misinformed and
irresponsible. With Ronald Reagan in the White House, Bill Casey and
Richard Nixon claimed the right to define the course of American foreign
policy, and Casey'ds unswerving support for Nixon made it all possible.
Casey had even supported Nixon through the Watergate crisis when he wrote:

All
of your friends, all of us who view you as a
national asset with a historic mission, and the general public, want to
pull all the political shenanigans behind us and get on with the vital
things to be done.25

The dirty tricks that these like-minded fanatics deployed to get Ronald Reagan are astounding, as betrayed in the book, October Surprise,
which exposes the plot to delay the release of American hostages held
in Tehran until after the election, to sabotage Jimmy Carter's prospect
of winning the election. Vigorously denied, the allegation appears to be
true, as suggested by an obscure New York Times story which
exposed the fact that Reagan's campaign manager, who was presumably
supposed to be planning Reagan's election strategy in America, was
actually abroad. A brief item in the New York Times dated July, 30 1980,
expsed the absence of Reagan's campaign manager in the following terms;
"William Casey plans to open negotiations with the Right to Life group
when he returns from a trip abroad."The Casey/Nixon agenda
defined the Reagan years, and the so-called Reagan revolution was in
fact a re-visitation of the lawless Nixon years. Accomplished in the art
of plotting clandestine schemes, Nixon and Casey were ushered in an
unprecedented reign of terror with a vengeance. Carter had interrupted
the unfinished agenda of the Nixon White House and the first order of
producing the dissent-free environment they demanded was the prompt
"liquidation" priority target, John Lennon. On December 2, 1980, Richard Nixon betrayed the pre-planned agenda of the Reagan White House in his book, The Real War,
wherin he claimed confidence in "the background of those new policies
that will now begin to emerge as the new administration takes office."
Nixon's book paints the paranoid portrait of a nation waging an
obsessive battle to win World War III, and he made himself the hero of
this delusional mythology. The home front of Nixon's so-called Real War
was the realm of ideals and ideas, and according to the
perversity he actively promoted "we will have to compromise some of our
cherished ideals" as long as the battle is waged "in the name of that
supreme priority."26
Having extolled the virtue of waging a covert, unethical war to support
friends and destroy enemies, Nixon essentially justified his absolute
commitment to do whatever was necessary, including the need to murder a
"peacnik" like John Lennon, because in the words of Nixon's absolute
delusion, "in World War III there is no substitute for victory."27
Committed to contain communism through the methods and means that
totalitarian states deploy, Richard Nixon was the sort who was even able
to assert that "senseless terrorism is often not as senseless as it may
seem. To the Soviets and their allies, [and to those who deploy their
tactics] it is a calculated instrument of national policy."28
This is the logic which made Richard Nixon believe that the calculation
behind the Kent State massacre was legitimate, and that is what makes
him and his cohorts the biggest terrorists in American history.
This is not speculation or a conspiracy theory, it is his defined rules
of engaging his enemies, clearly proclaimed through his stated,
absolute determination to do whatever was necessary in the multi-fronted
effort to win World War III, and sponsoring the murder of a so-called
trendy like John Lennon, was par for the course. In his own words:

If
America loses World War III, it will be because of the failure of its
leadership class. In particular, it will be because of the attention,
the celebrity, and the legitimacy given to the "trendies" -those
overglamorized dilettantes who posture in the latest idea, fount the
fashionable protests and are slobbered over by the news media, whose
creation they essentially are. The attention given to them and their
causes romanticizes the trivial and trivializes the serious. It reduces
public discussion to the level of a cartoon strip.
Whatever the latest cause they embrace -whether antiwar, antinuclear,
antimilitary, antibusiness -it is almost invariably one that works
against the interest of the United States in the context of World War
III.29

Since
Nixon believed that the murder of a "trendy" like John Lennon was
absolutely vital to the successful prosecution of World War III,
does anybody doubt his role in plotting the assassination of John
lennon? Is anybody in fact that stupid? In Nixon's own terms, "in a
less hazardous age we could afford to indulge the prancing of the
trendies on the stage of public debate. But now our national survival
depends on learning to distinguish between the meaningful and the
meaningless."30 Has Richard Nixon convinces the world that the murder of John Lennon was "meaningful"?"The
road to the murder of John Lennon had a long history of intrusive,
illegal surveillance and harassment. In particular, the Nixon White
House sought to "neutralize" Lennon's capacity to organize an
antiwar movement and Hoover's FBI "policed" Lennon while the
Immigration and Naturalization Service tried to deport him because of a
1968 conviction for possession of cannabis in London. The FBI
surveillance of Lennon produced a stack of papers twenty-six pounds in
weight, not to mention documents which remain classified or are
"withheld in the interest of the national defense or foreign policy."31 In 1969, John Lennon protested the Vietnam war by organising bed-ins for peace. In his own words:

The
point of the bed-in, in a nutshell, was a commercial for peace as
opposed to war, which was on the news everyday in those days. Everyday
there was dismembered bodies, napalm, and we thought, "Why don't they
have something nice in the papers?"32

A proposed bed-in in New York did not materialize, because, as Lennon recounted:

We
tried to do it in New York but the American government wouldn't let us
in. They didn't want any peaceniks, so we ended up doing it in Montreal
and broadcasting back across the border.33

Indeed,
the effort to politically silence Lennon was less than accommodating
and Lennon's lawyer exposed the full score when he told him that "if he
did anything more along the lines of this anti-war rock and roll
campaign he would almost certainly be immediately deported, but if he
cooled it, through various legal manoeuvres, he might be able to
stay."34 John
Lennon did what he had to do to avoid being deported. At the same time,
even though he was politically silenced, FBI harassment persisted and
he appeared on the Dick Cavett show to expose the fact that he was being
followed by the FBI and that his phones were being tapped. The FBI had
indeed mounted a major offensive operation against Lennon, but many
thought he was crazy and Lennon related the common scepticism in
the following terms: "Lennon, oh you big-headed maniac, who's going to
follow you around?" Most people did not understand or fathom the fact
that Hoover's FBI did not have anything better to do. It was not until
after the resignation of Richard Nixon that Lennon's immigration case
was thrown out of court and in 1976, his Green Card finally came
through. For the next four years, Lennon retired from all forms of
public life, and in 1980, the self-styled peace advocate came out of
retirement and prepared to mount a crusade to "turn the world on to
peace." At the same time. Richard Nixon and Bill Casey were setting the
stage for the Reagan declaration of war against Communism in Central
America, and peaceniks like Lennon were caught in the crossfire.Reagan's
foreign policy advocates prepared to satisfy the unfinished agenda of
the Nixon White House and serious threats were promptly eliminated. The
so-called lessons of the 1960's were very close to the hearts of "time
warp patriots" who blamed the loss of the Vietnam war on the antiwar
movement and they resented the influence of activists like Lennon to the
point of paranoia. In short, Reagan's upcoming, anti-Communist crusade
could simply not tolerate an invigorated John Lennon and "he had to be
cut down before the reasons for his death became obvious: before Reagan
took the oath of office on 20 January 1981, before the world realized
that Lennon was coming back to being the old Lennon, the man who sang Give Peace A Chance.35
In 1969, the Vietnam war had prompted the largest anti-war
demonstrations in the history of the United States and young people who
rallied around Lennon's protest songs had infuriated the Nixon White
House. Kent State massacre was immediately followed by protesters who
circled the White House and chanted "all we are saying is give peace a
chance" and Richard Nixon was obviously prepared to do the exact
opposite, in 1980.
when Nixon was President, Hoover had dispatched his political
police to "initiate discreet efforts to locate subject [John Winston
Lennon] and remain aware of his activities and movements." Hoover died
less that a year after the Republican convention in 1972, and Lennon's
murder in 1980 was merely a product of "unfinished business".
An obvious casualty of the Nixon navigated, Reagan revolution,
the dominance of Richard Nixon's influence is not doubted by anybody.
Even Reagan noticed the fact that Nixon's extraordinary White House
authority practically exceeded that of the official President. After
leaving the White House, the Reagan's were disturbed by what they
perceived to be "Reagan Bashing" by the Bush team, and it was Nixon who
contacted Bush's Chief of Staff, to intercede on behalf of Ronald and
Nancy Reagan. "Nixon made the call, telling Sununu that attacking the
Reagans was counterproductive for the White House. For whatever reason,
the attacks stopped".36
Nixon did not physically occupy the White House, but "the replica" was
indeed the actual source of White House power. When Richard Reeves
interviewed Richard Nixon in his "exile sanctum" in New York in 1980,
his apartment was arranged like the Oval Office. "The flags, the couch,
the chairs were just like it..." Indeed, Richard Nixon was so obsesses
with his role-play, that when the interview was concluded, he escorted
Reeves to the supplies closet "because the closet door in the faux Oval
Office was in the same place as an exit in the real Oval
Office."37 It is
therefore clear and obvious that the ultimate leader of the powerful,
unaccountable, parallel government within-a-government that Oliver North
operated was Richard Nixon himself -which probably explains the public
controversy between Oliver North and Ronald Reagan. The secret
government "was believed to have grown out of a group Mr. Casey set up
during the final weeks of the 1980 presidential campaign, called the October Surprise Group.38
Casey and Nixon were evidently full of surprises and on the very
day that the press headlined the announcement that a "local screwball"
murdered Lennon, the political backdrop was the innocuous headline, Reagan set to announce cabinet.The
claim that John Lennon was the target of a political assassination is
not original. In 1989, Fenton Bresler, an intelligent British Barrister
wrote a book called The Murder of Lennon, and he raises many of
the serious questions about Lennon's murder that have been almost
totally ignored. In particular, he convincingly argues that Mark
Chapman, Lennon's assassin was brainwashed by the CIA. Indeed, all the
"traditional" motivations that are ascribed to Mark Chapman are
relatively absurd compared to Bresler's analysis.
On December 17, 1992, Chapman was interviewed on Larry King Live,
and that was certainly an eye opener in terms of exposing the real Mark
Chapman. In a nutshell, Chapman reflected the demeanour of a cold,
dispassionate, methodical, cold blooded murderer. In particular,
Chapman ascribed a phoney motivation to account for Lennon's murder, and
that is certainly the mark of a cover up. On the one hand, Chapman
claimed that he "was so bonded with Lennon" and on the other, he boldly
asserted that he "struck out at something he perceived to be phoney,
and that extraordinary contradiction, reflects duplicity, deception and
the fact that Mark Chapman was not a "lone nut", he was a consensus
fanatic like Richard Nixon.The most striking, consistent element
in the short adult life of Mark Chapman is his affiliation to the YMCA.
Indeed, he had given serious consideration to applying himself to a
career with the International Division of the YMCA. When he was
arrested, one of the few items that Chapman left "on display" for the
police to find was the following letter of recommendation from David
Moore, then stationed at the Geneva office of the World Alliance of
YMCAs:

TO WHOM IT MAY CONCERNThis is to introduce
Mark Chapman, a staff member of the U.S. International Division of the
National Council of YMCAs. Mark was an effective and dedicated worker at
the refugee camp in Fort Chaffe Arkansas following the mass influx of
refugees after the change in governments in Indo-China in the spring of
1975. Mark was also the youth representative to the Board of Directors
of the YMCA in his home town in Georgia. Mark will be visiting YMCAs in
Asia and Europe and we look forward to his visit here in Geneva. I can
commend him to you as a sincere and intelligent young man. Any
assistance that you can give Mark during his travels will be greatly
appreciated by this office.39

It
is certainly not an exaggeration to assert that the YMCA was
essentially Mark Chapman's surrogate family. But what is more
significant however is the mysterious, troubling implications of the
fact that Chapman was not a "lone nut." In 1967, Ramparts Magazine
exposed the fact that the CIA used students to gather information from
abroad and in the 1970's and 1980's, the CIA was evidently using YMCA
patrons as spies. Philip Agee, the first-known CIA defector
blew the cover on the CIA/YMCA link, and Mark Chapman's YMCA link was
evidently too substantial and too "political" to preclude a CIA link as
well. In 1975, Mark Chapman, the vehemently anti-Communist
Southerner applied to represent the YMCA as a counsellor in the Soviet
Union, but that bid was denied because Chapman did not speak Russian.
Instead, Mark visited Lebanon, where, according to radio commentator,
Mae Brussell, the CIA maintained training camps for assassins at the
time.40Whether
Chapman was a trained CIA assassin or not, his Beirut experience had a
profound impact on his life, and following narrative indicates that
Mark's harrowing overseas experience produced a very deep, psychological
impact which was ripe for exploitation:

June 1975 seems
to have been the first time that Mark heard gunfire, the whizzing of
bullets, bombs bursting nearby and the screams of people in pain and
dying. It etched deep into his consciousness. This "gentle" man, who
hated violence, came back from Beirut with a cassette recording that he
had actually made of the barbarous sounds of warfare. He played it time
and again to anyone in Atlanta who would listen. Says Harold
Blankinship: "He played us this recording he had made in his hotel room
at the YMCA in Beirut of all the fighting going on. You could hear the
shooting, etc. That could have affected him. He was real up-tight about
it, I know that." Whether intentional or otherwise, Lennon's future
killer had indeed been "bloodied" in war-torn Beirut.41

The
violence of war-torn Lebanon was Chapman's first, it wasn't his last
firsthand look at the miserable dislocation that war produced. After
Beirut, Chapman worked with Vietnamese refugees in Fort Chaffee,
Arkansas, where the YMCA was setting up services to accommodate them.
Since the fall of Saigon, hundreds of thousands of Vietnamese fled to
the United States and in the eyes of "time warp" patriots, antiwar
activists [phonies] like John Lennon were directly responsible for that
particular "mess." And so, Mark Chapman, who travelled the world at the
behest of the CIA-linked YMCA, was ripe for exploitation -he was an
ideal brainwash victim -he had witnessed firsthand the world disorder
that so-called phonies like John Lennon were responsible for. Indeed,
Mark Chapman dabbled in the philosophy of "time warp" patriots who
blamed the 1960's for every ill in society, and that sort of mentality
is transmitted from "patriot" to receptive ear, it did not develop in
Chapman alone. Since he murdered John Lennon, Mark Chapman
boasted: "I murdered a man. I took a lot more with me than just myself. A
whole era ended. It was the last nail in the coffin of the '60's."42
After killing his target and simultaneously satisfying the
paranoia of "time warp patriots" who are in a perpetual war against
the so-called 1960's, Chapman did not flee the murder scene, he calmly
started to read his copy of The Catcher in the Rye when amazed
New York City police officers arrested him. Chapman obviously wanted to
get caught -the implication being that he would plead guilty and the
Lennon case would close without investigation. Over the years, when
asked why he murdered Lennon, Chapman would direct attention to the
book The Catcher in the Rye. That in turn, directs attention
towards patriots like George Herbert Walker Bush, who claim to have been
most influenced by the books War and Peace and The Catcher in the Rye.43The Catcher in the Rye
is about a "crusade against phoneyness" and Mark Chapman, who used the
assassination of Lennon to promote the book, claimed that he was
motivated by Holden Caulfield, the book's sixteen-year-old "crusader".
In a nutshell, Holden Caulfield hated phonies and Mark Chapman's crusade
against a "phoney" like Lennon was "ideologically" aligned with the
agenda of overzealous "patriots" who were occupied by the obsession to
neutralize the influence of popular antiwar activists. In the awkward
words of Mark Chapman: "I have a small part in me that cannot understand
the world and what goes on in it. I did not want to kill anybody... I
fought against the small part for a long time. I'm sure the large part
of me is Holden Caulfield. The small part of me must be the Devil."44
Seeking to activate the "big part" of Mark Chapman, his "handlers"
could have easily exploited his evident compassion for children and made
him believe that "phonies" like John Lennon were ultimately responsible
for the horror and the dislocation of war. Friends and associates made a
point of having observed a very close bond between Mark Chapman and
children, and that certainly provided the opportunity to exploit his Achilles heel.
In the words of Mark Chapman: "I never wanted to hurt anybody my
friends will tell you that. I have two parts in me the big part is very
kind, the children I worked with will tell you that."45
Chapman struggled to avoid hurting Lennon but his "big part won" and
he took his gun out of his coat pocket and shot Lennon in the chest, in
the left arm and in the head. Mark Chapman had evidently mustered up the
courage he required to satisfy the agenda of patriots who considered
themselves to be exempt from the normal restraint of the law, because in
their eyes, the "big picture", the "big part", the national security
interest or whatever else they chose to call it, was essentially a
license to kill -and John Lennon was clearly a priority target.In
the final analysis, the terrifying reality is that the impressionable
Mark Chapman is just one of hundreds of thousands of young people who
are not appreciably distinct, in the absence of the "exposure" they
receive. Under the circumstances, since Chapman travelled the world as a
guest of the YMCA, it is reasonable to expect the organization that
sponsored Chapman's psychologically harrowing adventures to assume at
least some responsibility for the extraordinary mental transformation
-from Mark Chapman, the compassionate young man, to Mark Chapman, the
awkward, reluctant assassin who had to be prodded, to murder John
Lennon.If one looks at the foreign policy direction of the Reagan
White House, it is glaringly obvious that "patriots" like Bill Casey
and Richard Nixon were steering the course. Clearly, the "invisible
prints" of the clandestine, foreign policy strategists who coordinated
the entire intelligence apparatus of the government to mount a fierce,
unprecedented war against dissent, belong to Casey and Nixon. Richard
Nixon made that absolutely clear in The Real War, when he
wrote: "I am confident that President Reagan and the members of his
administration will have the vision to see what needs to be done and the
courage to do it. Nixon's confidence obviously stemmed from the fact
that Reagan's inclination to mount an anti-Communist crusade provided
zealots like himself the opportunity to use the "acting President" to
promote their vision. The Reagan/Bush years are certainly distinguished
by the fact that "patriots" were routinely granted license to ignore the
law as long as the intended consequence was to advance the President's
anti-Communist crusade. The law was routinely violated in the process,
and blatant, illegal acts of terror targeted domestic dissidents at
home, and entire countries, abroad. Clearly, the CIA deployment of
mines in the harbours of Nicaragua was an illegal act of war, and it is
not possible to ignore the fact that the Reagan administration routinely
disrespected and disregarded the law. Moreover, the paranoid, Nixon
assertion that "we will do whatever is necessary" to win World War III,
is a clear reflection of the violent, ominous assault that was deployed,
to "neutralize" any influential activist who did not think like Richard
Nixon's patriots. In the final analysis, the deaths of the people that
Nixon targeted were as predictable, as they were tragic. Clearly, The Real War that Nixon waged produced Real Casualties, and "patriots" like Richard Nixon and Bill Casey were directly responsible for slaughter. One of the premises of The Real War
was that the need to win on the battlefield was as vital as the need to
control the public opinion arena, and the compromise of every worthy
American ideal was deemed to be acceptable.After Mark Chapman
hammered the so-called final nail in "the coffin of the '60's", Richard
Nixon had the audacity to write a book called The Real Peace,
and he was so excited about it that he privately printed and distributed
it to more than 100 government officials, journalists and friends,
before it was published by Little, Brown & Co. Ronald Reagan was
officially the President of the United States, but time evidently warped
when Richard Nixon and Henry Kissinger stood before a battery of
microphones in Washington to brief reporters about their "brain-dead"
vision for peace and democracy in Central America. Nixon had just
finished testifying before Kissinger's National Bipartisan Commission
on Central America (no, Kissinger was not Ronald Reagan's Secretary of
State), and one can safely assume that like any predictable ideologue,
Nixon simply disseminated propaganda. He certainly did not expose the
inspiration behind The Real Peace: Did he get the idea to disparage the word "peace" before or after John Lennon was murdered?In
retrospect, one can confidently state that Richard Nixon always
targeted his enemies and he always managed to cover up the entire truth
about his covert schemes, and since he rose to national prominence
through successfully framing Alger Hiss, his positive track record bodes
an ominous threat to all of his political enemies. Bill Clinton, the
current President of the United States, is certainly the current,
primary target of the Nixon agenda, and one can safely assume that he
planned to destroy him through the so-called Whitewater scandal. As
long as Reagan was the President, Richard Nixon, the cerebral
commander-in-chief was able to exercise power, and in 1987, he
personally extolled the virtue of "attack politics" in effort to make
Robert Dole the next President.46
When Dole failed to win the Republican nomination, George Bush was an
acceptable alternative -until Bill Clinton defeated him and became the
President of the United States in 1992, and Richard Nixon was deeply
offended. In particular, the Democrats lambasted the "decadent" 1980's,
and Richard Nixon, who was extremely proud of his so-called "enlightened
decade" was absolutely infuriated, and it was only a matter of time
before Nixon developed a plan to destroy Clinton -the so-called
Whitewater scandal. Indeed, Richard Nixon, the "patriot" who subscribed
to the diabolical "assassinations formulae" -destroy your enemies
through derogatory fabrication if possible, kill them if necessary, was
certainly capable of producing and prone to manufacture a scandal like
Whitewater. Nixon may no longer be around to advance his agenda, but
"residue zealots' like Gordon Liddy are evidently still seeking to
re-elect a Nixon clone. Appearing on Nightilne, on August 25,
1994, Liddy still sounds like he is engaged in a life and death
struggle against communism and claimed that Bill Clinton, Hillary
Clinton and Fidel Castro were the only communists left in the world.
Given the obsession and the paranoia that still prevails, Canadian
political commentators like Dalton Camp place the so-called Whitewater
scandal in perspective when they say. "There can't be much doubt
the purpose of Whitewater is to put Clinton off his agenda -notably,
health care, which threatens so many powerful interests -and no better
way than to flatten Hillary Rodham Clinton in the bargain".47
But despite the obvious facts that Dalton alludes to, an
aggressive anti-Clinton crusade repeatedly draws false parallels between
Whitewater and Watergate, and evidently seeks to cripple the Clinton
presidency in the process. According to Senator Al D'Amato, who spoke to
the press on March 8, 1994:

It would seem to me, that with all of the attempts to stop a special prosecutor at first and now to stifle
Congress from its legitimate role, which is to oversight of these committees, and then to say oh you' re
interfering with our job, that smacks of what took place with Watergate.

Senator D'Amato is either an extremely ignorant man or he has
deliberately engaged a highly sophisticated, illegal plot to cripple the
Clinton presidency. Either way, he certainly devalues the American
Senate. If one wants to draw a parallel between Watergate and
Whitewater, one can credibly say that Nixon [who never failed to target
his political enemies] was evidently behind both scandals, but one can
certainly not suggest that there is the slightest bit of significance in
the reluctance to highlight manufactured allegations.The
effort to reform the nation's health care system produced the most
ambitious social legislation to face Congress since the civil rights
legislation of the 1960's, and if history provides reliable insight, it
also produced a violently ambitious opposition. In the battle to reform
or not to reform, "Dole craft" [Nixon sponsored?] has thus far
prevailed. During the election of 1992, Bush opposed a national
health care plan, and while that is not surprising because George
Bush routinely rejected Democratic initiatives, one should not
ignore the fact that "patriots" like Bush traditionally deploy illegal
tactics to deny the political will of their "enemies". Like Richard
Nixon, George Bush was motivated by contempt for the opposition, and his
"do nothing" domestic agenda diametrically opposed the "do everything"
refrain of reform. The basic tactic of a "patriot" like George
Bush is to snatch power away from the Democrats because, in his own
words, "to accomplish things, you have first got to beat down the
Democrats."48
Iran-Contra certainly exposed the fact that George Bush belonged to a
sleazy cabal of "patriots" who proved that "powerful people with
powerful allies can commit serious crimes and get away with it", and
that certainly does not bode very well with doubting Bush's capacity to
pervert the law. Indeed, when George Bush was the vice president, fellow
"patriot" Oliver North operated a powerful, parallel, unaccountable
government, and Bill Casey had instituted a domestic propaganda
apparatus that fulfilled the perversions of deluded spies and
provocateurs who routinely targeted their perceived enemies. Oliver
North may have evaded Congressional oversight by shredding the bizarre
truth about the domestic, propaganda apparatus that routinely perverted
the law in the 1980's, but the bizarre unfolding of the so-called
Whitewater scandal strongly suggests that the diabolical plots of
clandestine, political operatives, have survived the Reagan/Bush
years. Indeed, given the fact that Whitewater reflects absolutely
nothing [in terms of how it has unfolded] beyond a triumph of
propaganda, one can safely assume that clandestine, political
operatives, are busily defining the Whitewater agenda. The implications
of the "timely" unfolding of the Whitewater witch hunt are certainly
very clear. During Clinton's first major foreign policy encounter, for
example, the President received favourable press coverage in Brussels,
Prague, Kiev and Moscow over his handling of affairs, but reporters at
home ignored the nature of his trip and questioned him about
Whitewater. The politically motivated scheme frustrated the President,
and even if the press was not a conscious participant in the effort to
embarrass Clinton, history clearly demonstrates how easy it is to
manipulate the press through "handing out" the news.
If George Bush is a party to a sophisticated propaganda machine which
seeks to manipulate public opinion, the press will certainly never
report the fact -that kind of news is not handed out. Bush seldom,
if ever, makes a casual disclosure, he is always very deliberate. In
August of 1994, prior to speaking to reporters, Bush defined his
restrictive ground rules when he said: "You'll waste your time if you
ask me about American politics or Canadian politics, because I don't do
interviews [on politics]."49
Enough said. George Bush obviously knows more about American
"patriots" than he does about American politics, and the world of
clandestine plots is evidently the primary "political arena" that
"patriots" like George Bush acknowledge. In 1992, during his bid for a
second term as President, Bush repeatedly questioned Bill
Clinton's character, judgment and patriotism for opposing the Vietnam
war and vigorously promoted the claim that Clinton was not fit to be the
commander-in-chief because he was not a "patriot". Since 1980, when
Bill Casey brought former covert operatives out of retirement,
"patriots" enjoyed an uninterrupted, 12-year long period of domestic
sabotage and spying that was sanctioned by the White House, and
Bush-style intelligence zealots who equated "patriot" and "fit to
govern", were obviously not very pleased by the election of Bill
Clinton. The independent-minded public servants that Bill Clinton
recruited did not stroke the fantasies of the "patriots" and they
consequently became the targets of what can only be described as a plot
to "realign" the White House. The sinister implications of the
cloak-and- dagger clash between secret warriors and independent,
dedicated public servants, are extremely repugnant and repulsive,
but they are not surprising. George Bush is not even in the White House,
yet all of his friends are on the offensive, while all of the
President's are on the defensive. Roger Altman was recently forced to
resign, simply because he allegedly failed to give a full accounting of
Treasury Department contacts with the White House -and what was the
"contact" about? It was about the so-called Whitewater scandal
-the fraudulent, anti-Clinton assault which has been sustained through a
covert, semi-government, semi-private witch hunt. Bernard Nussbaum
resigned because he failed to discourage contact between the White House
and the Treasury Department -that's right, contact about Whitewater.
Vincent Foster was murdered [or he conveniently committed suicide] to
deprive the President of a friend, an independent public servant, an
adviser and a Whitewater expert. In the meantime, the media has made
George Bush's friends the new spokespeople of America. On June 13, 1994,
Ed Meese, a staunch Bush ally, appeared on Nightline to
proclaim that the President of the United States is not above the law
and that Paula Jones, a Clinton accuser, deserved a prompt, delay-free
day in court to air her frivolous [because they are obviously
politically motivated] sexual harassment charges. Sounding like he
personally represented Jones and that every word that ever came out of
her mouth was an absolute fact, Meese certainly exposed his
ignorant, extremely overbearing, anti-Clinton crusade. Perhaps Meese,
the ultimate hypocrite, should acknowledge the fact that he was the
Attorney General when Bill Casey revived illegal, covert operations that
targeted American citizens and if George Bush had not pardoned criminal
"patriots" who covered up the sinister truth about their routine
tendency to pervert the law, Meese would probably be serving a life
sentence for treason.There is evidently no shame and no limit to
the pro-Bush, anti-Clinton witch hunt that is now called Whitewater. On
August 5, 1994, a Federal appeals panel replaced independent Whitewater
counsel Robert Fiske Jr., with Kenneth Starr, a former Bush
administration solicitor general. Fiske's investigation had found no
basis to accuse the Clinton White House of criminal wrongdoing, and the
politically motivated panel of judges that appointed Starr was
evidently so disappointed by the failure to "criminalize" the Clinton
White House that they granted Starr the authority to re-investigate Bill
Clinton. But history dictates the fact that politically motivated men
are not judges, they are, as Judge Jim Garrison aptly demonstrated,
criminals in legal garb. Judge David B. Sentelle, for example, who cast
the deciding vote in the three-judge panel that appointed Starr, is
responsible for overturning the convictions of Oliver North and John
Poindexter, obtained by independent prosecutor Lawrence Walsh. If
Sentelle is so keen on throwing out convictions, then why is he seeking
to "criminalize" the Clinton White House? In retrospect, the fact that
Sentelle is simply a national security motivated "patriot" is too
obvious to deny, and the fact that George Bush's friends have a perverse
concept of law and order, should certainly not determine the course of
justice in America.

1Richard Powers, Secrecy and Power: The Life of J. Edgar Hoover, p.301.2Ibid., p.281.3Richard Nixon, The memoirs of Richard Nixon, p.58.4Ibid., p.232.5Robert Groden and Harrison Livingstone, High Treason, p.419.
6Richard Nixon, The memoirs of Richard Nixon, p.252.7Ibid., p.252.8LIfe, August 23, 1968, p.2.9Richard Nixon, The memoirs of Richard Nixon, p.308.10John Ehrlichman, Witness to Power, p.156-57.11Richard Nixon, The memoirs of Richard Nixon, p.234.12Michael Drosnin, Citizen Hugnes, p.480.13The New York Times, The White House Transcripts, p.831.14Richard Nixon, The memoirs of Richard Nixon, p.832.15Conspiracy, Anthony Summers, p.418-9.16Arts and Entertainment Channel, The Key to Watergate, 1992.17Ibid.18The White House Transcripts: The full text
of the Submission of Recorded Presidential Conversations to the
Committee on the Judiciary of the House of Representatives by president
Richard Nixon With an introduction by R.W. Apple Jr. of The New York
Times, 1974. p.815.19Richard Nixon, The memoirs of Richard Nixon, p.685.20C.L. Sulzberqer, The World and Richard Nixon, p.165.21Richard Nixon, The memoir

The Murder of Marilyn Monroe

M
arylin Monroe was under lockstep surveillance. She hung around a diverse
crowd that included un-Americans like Arthur Miller and she was
essentially J. Edgar Hoover's personal reality TV star even before the
concept existed.

In 1972, actress Veronica Hamel and her then husband became the new
owners of Marilyn Monroe's Brentwood home. When they hired a contractor
to replace the roof and remodel the house the contractor discovered a
sophisticated eavesdropping and telephone tapping system that covered
every room in the house. The components were not commercially available
in 1962, but were in the words of a retired Justice Department official,
"standard FBI issue." The new owners spent $100,000 to remove the
bugging devices from the house.

J. Edgar Hoover, who refused to acknowledge the existence of the Mafia
because he used it to declare a private sector war against Communism,
deployed all the necessary resources to spy on un-American targets,
especially hollywood stars; Marylin Monroe's entire house was therefore
bugged -audio and video. It is consequently no surprise that, like Jack
Ruby, the guy who bugged Marilyn Monroe's house also died in prison, and
the rumor that her murder was actually videotaped, was therefore never
proved in a court of law.

Lockstep surveillance precludes the possibility that the truth about
Marilyn Monroe's murder was anything beyond a deliberate cover up under
the absolute control of J. Edgar Hoover, and the same can be said about
the murder of Martin Luther King Jr. Indeed, according to Harold
Weisberg, who was the most informed expert in the US, the evidence
against James Earl Ray had been amassed and bundled up, not after, but
before King was shot, and it is therefore clear that the nature of fate
of James Earl Ray was akin to silencing the man who bugged Marilyn
Monroe's home.

We respectfully suggest that if Hoover's FBI wanted to impose lockstep
surveillance to monitor the activities of targets like King and Monroe,
then it was also the duty of Hoover's FBI to provide lockstep security.

Marylin Monroe's fate was sealed over the fact that her wide circle of
acquaintances included mobsters like Johnny Roselli. Angry at the
Kennedys for giving the Mafia a hard time, he constantly bragged about
"friends in high places" who were going to knock Kennedy off. These
assassination rumors invariably disturbed Marylin Monroe, and in
retrospect, it is more than reasonable to assume that her frantic
attempt to warn the Kennedys was violently thwarted.

Like Marilyn Monroe, Roselli's knowledge regarding the assassination of
John F. Kennedy sealed his fate. In 1975 Frank Church and his Select
Committee on Intelligence Activities interviewed Roselli about his
relationship with the secret services and the next year, his body was
found floating in an oil drum in Miami's Dumfoundling Bay. He had been
garroted. Roselli's legs had been sawed off and squashed into the drum
with the rest of his body.

Jack Anderson, of the Washington Post, interviewed Roselli just before
he was murdered, and Roselli had said, "When Oswald was picked up, the
underworld conspirators feared he would crack and disclose information
that might lead to them. This almost certainly would have brought a
massive US crackdown on the Mafia. So Jack Ruby was ordered to eliminate
Oswald."

We are forever astounded by the lack of knowledge that surrounds the
Kennedy assassination. Take the ignorance which surrounds Jim Garrison.
Jim Garrison was not the truth seeking crusader that Oliver Stone
created. Jim Garrison was a corrupt, New Orleans District Attorney who
gave the Mafia free reign in New Orleans. His tactic was very simple. By
busting low level criminals, Jim Garrison gave the Carlos Marcello
Mafia network the opportunity to dominate the rackets. At the same time,
the punks he put behind bars created the impression that he was an
aggressive, competent, law enforcement official.

A former G-man, Jim Garrison was forever loyal to tactics that J. Edgar
Hoover practised on the national level. Both men were Mafia assets and
they both used the Mafia to suit their own, peculiar interests.

By the late 1960's, Kennedy assassination critics had successfully
exposed the absurdity of the "single bullet theory" and two out of three
Americans did not believe the preposterous claim that Oswald had acted
alone. When the Warren Commission Report was discredited, Jim Garrison
burst upon the trail of the assassination critics with the bold
assertion that he knew exactly who had murdered John F. Kennedy and that
it was a matter of days before he exposed the entire plot -down to
naming every single assassin. Jim Garrison did not merely hog media
attention surrounding the Kennedy assassination, he became the entire
media circus and used his law enforcement assets to "put the squeeze" on
witnesses who knew Oswald. In essence, he treated every Kennedy
assassination witness the way Ken Starr treated witnesses like Susan
McDougal; Tell the truth and I'll prosecute you for perjury, tell me
what I want and hear and receive a 'get out of jail free' card.

Jim Garrison was a real piece of work; He makes Ken Starr's excesses
look like Boy Scout pranks. He used the Grand Jury to harass and
intimidate Oswald's acquaintances, and those who knew too much, died
like Roselli. David Ferrie, for example, was obviously murdered, but
like Marilyn Monroe, he allegedly committed suicide. Not surprisingly,
David Ferrie dies while he was under under Jim Garrison's protective
custody. Sound familiar? Okay, I'll spell it out; Marilyn Monroe was
essentially under J. Edgar Hoover's "protective custody".

Reports that Oswald had Ferrie's library card in his possession on the
day that he was arrested refused to go away, and David Ferrie's death
conveniently denied confirmation.

In retrospect, having connected all the dots, it is clear and obvious
that John F. Kennedy was murdered because he planned to pull out of the
Vietnam war, "win, lose or draw", by 1965, and the power commanded by
the tight-lipped group that ultimately prosecuted this undeclared war,
secretely vetoed the President's agenda; Men like Lyndon Johnson,
McGeorge Bundy, Dean Rusk, and Robert McNamara. These men were all
emotionally invested to the belief that, the national security of the
United States was tied to winning the Vietnam War, Kennedy was the only
practical obstacle who stood in the way of their obsession and that is
why they supported the plot to have him assassinated.

In retrospect, the plot to assassinate JFK was an open secret that
involved, not only some of the men in his own administration, but also
J. Edgar Hoover and Richard Nixon. In the early 1960's Richard Nixon
presided over Operation 40, a Central Intelligence Agency-sponsored
undercover operation which was active in the United States and the
Caribbean (including Cuba), Central America, and Mexico. It was created
by President Dwight D. Eisenhower in March 1960, after the January 1959
Cuban Revolution. The group included Frank Sturgis and Howard Hunt, and
whent Nixon used these Operation 40-style assets to target his domestic,
political enemies, he was impeached.

Despite all the "assets" that were ready and willing to assassinate
President John F. Kennedy, most were merely low level operatives. Having
failed to assassinate Castro, despite their best efforts, it was well
understood that a plot as sensitive as the murder of an American
President demanded a more foolproof plot. Consequently, foreign
assassins were ultimately recruited. They were ushered in and out of the
country, for the "traceless kill". The assassins were flown from
Marseilles to Mexico City. They were then driven to the US border at
Brownsville, Texas. They crossed the border using Italian passports and
they were picked up on the American side by a representative of the
Chicago Mafia, with whom they conversed in Italian. After being driven
to Dallas, they were set up in a safehouse so as to not leave any hotel
records.

If this sounds confusing, understand this. The Kennedy assassination
controversy has been dominated by cover up artists. If you haven't spent
at least 20 years uncovering the truth, you should be confused. But
rest assured that every single word in this report is verifiable and
every single denial is shrouded in secrecy, deceit and outright fraud.
This is the simple, unvarnished, indisputable truth.

Richard Nixon

Subject: Critique of John McAdams by Jeff Orr - 02/08/00

I would
have to say that John McAdams either has mental problems, or is a
conscious and deliberate agent of dis-information. Perhaps he is both, but
no one could be as familiar with the facts as he seems to be and still
advocate such a position. I would like to explain my experience with Mr.
John McAdams, and try to let that experience speak to the reputation of
this person.

I wish that I had copies of the posts that I put up
at his newsgroup location. If I am able to get a copy of that I will be
glad to furnish it as proof. I didn't know that the JFK assassination
newsgroup that I was posting on was affiliated to the McAdams website,
until after my posts were removed and I was blocked from making any
further posts. I am not a serious researcher but I have looked very
closely into the JFK assassination and I put a post on that newsgroup. The
subject of the post was the question "Where was George Bush on the day
Kennedy was assassinated?" My post explained that the day following the
assassination Bush had met with J Edgar Hoover to discuss JFK's murder,
and that those in Dallas that day included Frank Sturgis, Howard Hunt, and
Jack Ruby. I also made a post about the motivation for Jack Ruby to kill
Oswald. The subject of that post was speculation that Oswald was probably
meant to die in the theater, and that Ruby had to act in this way because
the plotters intended Oswald to be the dead "patsy" following the
assassination.

McAdams sarcastically responded to the posts with a
speed that arouses suspicion. Because who has time to sit by a computer
and watch the posts as they come in? He claimed that there was no evidence
to support anything I said in the Bush post. I can't remember what he said
about the Ruby post. He could do no more than to refute every reference by
claiming that the info and the sources were phony or false. He ended by
saying that what I had offered were only "factiods". So I coolly responded
with the complete info and the sources, still thinking that this
information was probably unknown to him, and that he would take the info
seriously when I gave him the references and more background on them.
There was nothing hostile or rude in my response only good solid sources
for the claims I made; yet the post was removed within minutes. I had
tried to post it at a second JFK assassination newsgroup and found that it
wouldn't accept my post. I tried to re-post at the site that had briefly
contained my reply to McAdams, but found that the site was blocking my
posts just as the other site was. I can't say for sure, but I am fairly
sure he is the person who has censored my posts.

Here we have a
chap who has a tremendous amount of time on his hands to promote a fiction
about the assassination of JFK through websites, newsgroups, and no
telling what other means. Whether he is a paid dis-information specialist,
or unpaid, he is definitely promoting information that is knowingly false
to him. His opinions cannot stand in a debate with an informed person. He
cannot help but contradict himself in defending his untenable position. He
is not trying to seek the truth whatever it may be, he is trying to
promote myths that exonerate those who are implicated by evidence in the
assassination of their own leader, a United States President named John F.
Kennedy. He is out to discredit people who are putting the logical
conclusions together from the irrefutable evidence. Whatever his reasons
are for trying to continue the cover-up of the JFK assassination, I don't
have any appreciation of them.

Exhibit #1

Three witnesses confirm the fact
that Lovelady was with them on the steps of the Depository,
William Shelley (6H328), Sarah Stanton (22H647), and Wesley Frazier
(22H675). But in the
WCH, Shelley testified under oath that Lovelady was SITTING DOWN on the
top step directly
in front of Shelley, and that is why the man pictured in the Doorway is
not Lovelady, and
J. Edgar Hoover knew it. Even Lovelady claimed that he was with Shelley.
Moreover, Lovelady worked on the 6th floor of the Texas School
Book Depository, and he was an eyewitness to the fact that the shots
came from "across the
street" and not from the Texas School Book Depository. So any way you
look at it, Lovelady
proves that Lee Harvey Oswald did not act alone.

In
desperate effort to discredit Exhibit #1, McAdams & Company
published a 1971 photograph of Lovelady, to demonstrate the fact that
his hairline matched the dark shadows around the forehead of the man in
the doorway. McAdams is so desperate to convince the world that the man
in the doorway is actually Lovelady, that his picture of Lovelady
boasted the following caption: "Shape of Lovelady's hairline matches
Doorway man."
The pictue that McAdams produces does not even have a hairline. The
hairline is shaved off to mimick dark shadows around the forehead of the
man in the Doorway. Don't forget that the picture of the man in the
doorway is too fuzzy, to accurately determine the actual shape of the
hairline of the person in the Doorway. Regardless, without a moments
delay, McAdam groupies immediately began to post messages drooling over
the "photographic evidence" that McAdams produced, and they thanked the
"master" so profusely, that if all this was not made for the consumption
of the ignorant and the gullible, then John McAdams is the sort of
academic who deserves a Nobel Prize, simply because he has a following
that drools over every single word he utters. Despite his groupies,
McAdams has to be the only person in the world, who can identify a
person from a hairline that does not even exist. It is no wonder that
John McAdams has developed the reputation of being the laughing stock of
the entire Internet. Clearly, this is one crackpot who has worked very
hard, to earn his reputation. Needless to say, John McAdams never
fails to be absolutely predictable -he attacks everything and everyone
who exposes the truth about the assassination of John F. Kennedy. And if
that is not what you call a cover up, then Lee Harvey Oswald acted
alone. And so did Jack Ruby. And so did John McAdams, who never fails to
target every single, reasonable, Kennedy Assassination website. Please
do not drool over simple common sense because it's just a factoid. We
are not supposed to speculate, we are supposed to drool over the
absolute brilliance of a crackpot or a cover up artist like John
McAdams.
McAdams is a prolific, Kennedy assassination cover up
artist who has developed his own lexicon and his own fan club. A
'factoid' is a simple truth that needs to be fraudulently modified, to
cover up the truth about the assassination of John F. Kennedy. A McAdams
groupie, and there are literally dozens of them who post messages in
newsgroups, are the people who drool over every single fraudulent
modification. And there is absolutely nothing more and nothing less to
John McAdams or to anybody who defends the reputation of the fraud artist who covered up the truth about the Kennedy assassination.
More on Mcadams

Distorting the photographic evidence

The first step to creating the false impression that Oswald was on the
6th floor of the School Book Depository was to distort the Altgens photograph.
Clearly, it is not possible to remove a face or faces from the area of the
doorway of the TSBD unless the Altgens photo was deliberately defaced as it was.

Oswald and Lovelady were both in the doorway.

Police
evidence proves that both Lee Harvey Oswald and Bill Lovelady were at
the doorway at the same time, when Kennedy was shot, because they both
identified Bill Shelley, who was standing in the doorway with them.

So you see, the evidence is conclusive, and Oswald's claim about the phony backyard photos is precedent because
it explains the process of cutting Billy Lovelady's face and pasting it over Oswalds and then blanking out Lovelady
in the original. That would explain every anomaly, including the fact that Billy's shirt isn't as unbuttoned as it
is in the Altgens photo. Needless to say, if Lee Harvey Oswald was on the 6th floor shooting the President he would
would not be aware of the fact Bill Shelley was standing in the doorway with Lovelady, when John F. Kennedy was shot.

This is what John F.Kennedy said about Richard Nixon:

"Mr. Nixon in the last seven days has called me an
economic ignoramus, a Pied Piper, and all the rest. I've just confined myself to calling him a Republican, but he
says that is getting low."

Nixon falsely claimed that the first he heard of Kennedy's death was
during a taxi ride in New York City, however, a UPI photo reveals the
truth. The photo shows a "shocked" [HIS Dealy Plaza, 'hobo' act] Richard
Nixon. Having already learned of Kennedy's assassination upon his
arrival at New York's Idlewild Airport --BEFORE his alleged taxi ride,
the feigned surprise reaction is clearly a glaring deception. Perhaps,
Richard Nixon does not want us to know who picked him up at the airport,
who he talked to or what he said, but he doesn't have to lie to us.

Many researchers have linked Richard Nixon to the assassination of John
F. Kennedy because his outright lies, the secrecy and his selective
amnesia is very telling. For example, as H.R. Haldeman indicates in his
book, "The Ends of Power", Watergate was ultimately about a shocking
scandal that preceded a simple burglary, and as Haldeman indicates:

In fact, I was puzzled when he [Nixon] told me, 'Tell
Ehrlichman this whole group of Cubans [Watergate Burglars] is tied to
the Bay of Pigs.' After a pause I said, 'The Bay of Pigs? What does that
have to do with the Watergate Burglary?'
But Nixon merely said, 'Ehrlichman will know what I mean,' and dropped
the subject.

It is now quite clear and obvious that the Watergate burglars were tied
to the murder of John F. Kennedy, and Haldeman does not mince words when
he says, "It seems that in all of those Nixon references to the Bay of
Pigs, he was actually referring to the Kennedy assassination."

History is one big lie because we fail to expose the truth.
In his memoirs, Nixon said that "the factual truth [about Watergate]
could probably never be completely reconstructed, because each of us had
become involved in different ways and no one's knowledge at any given
time exactly duplicated anyone else's." Richard Nixon was wrong.
High level obstructions of justice within the FBI made the Watergate
investigation superficial, but the cover up ultimately exposed the
truth. The Kennedy assassination investigation is no different because,
having successfully obscurred what Nixon called "the factual truth,"
high level obstruction of justice within the FBI made the Kennedy
assassination investigation an absolute whitewash, and the cover up is
the crime. Indeed, the factual truth that Richard Nixon's estate is
still trying to block, is no longer in doubt.
History is one big lie, when we fail to expose deception, time has a way
of exposing all the factual truths that Richard Nixon thought he had
buried.
First and foremost, we need to clearly appreciate the fact that Richard
Nixon's greatest shortcoming was not Watergate, but his direct
involvement in the domestic, assassination plots of the 1960's.
Indeed, it is a documented, proven fact that Nixon's cronies plotted
outright political murder
(Jack Anderson was lucky to survive.) He was scheming to have people
beaten up. He associated
with mobsters. Nazi propaganda films were being shown in the White
House. His men schemed
to burglarize Republican headquarters and blame it on the Democrats.
They schemed
to plant McGovern campaign literature in the apartment of Art Brehmer,
the would-be assassin
of George Wallace, and the evidence strongly suggests they probably even
schemed to assassinate Ted Kennedy, and after having failed, they
blamed the fortunate survivor for the death of unintended victim, Mary
Jo Kopechne.
Indeed, Nixon's memoirs are littered with evidence that as far as he was
concerned, Chappaquiddick was nothing more than an election issue, it
had nothing to do with a tragic murder. To quote Richard Nixon directly:

In the short term, I knew that Chappaquiddick would
undermine Kennedy's role as a leader of the opposition to the
administration's policies. In the longer term, it would be one of his
greatest liabilities if he decided to run for President in 1972.It
was clear that the full story of what had happened that night on
Chappaquidick had not come out, [how did he know, did his plan misfire?]
and I suspected that the press would not try very hard to uncover it.
Therefore I told Ehrlichman to have someone investigate the case for us
and get the real facts out. [we all know what that means in
Nixon-speak.] "Don't let up on this for a minute," I said. "Just put
yourself in their place if something like that happened to us." In fact,
our private investigator was unable to turn out anything besides
rumors.

Needless to say, the truth was damaging to
Richard Nixon, because if it wasn't, he would not have to rely on rumors
about Chappaquiddick, for political advantage. The truth is, Nixon
feared another Kennedy candidacy and Chappaquiddick was Richard Nixon's
failed attempt to assassinate yet another political rival.
Howard Hunt and Frank Sturgis were seen in Martha's Vineyard during the
weekend that Mary Jo Kopechne died, and it is therefore safe to assume
that the intended victim was in fact, Ted Kennedy. Richard Nixon was
right, the entire truth was never exposed. If it was, his Watergate
burglars would have been charged with murder, for the collateral death
of Mary Jo Kopechne.
In 1980, when Ronald Reagan was asleep on the wheel and Richard Nixon
pulled the strings,
the cloak-and-dagger comeback kid claimed the life of John Lennon in a
60's style execution
where a well placed patsy took all the blame. It happened with John F.
Kennedy, it happened
with Martin Luther King, it happened with Robert F. Kennedy, and as long
as Richard Nixon was the cloak-and-dagger comeback kid, it happened
with John Lennon.
The truth about Richard Nixon is routinely and aggressively distorted to
justify every assault against a Democratic Party that is supposed to
roll over and play dead, whenever the Conservative media flexes its
political muscle.
In 2000, when Republican rioters managed to subvert the fair opportunity to challenge the
election and used the Supreme Court to certify a dishonest count, they piously claimed that unlike
Al Gore, Richard Nixon had graciously conceded in 1960.
The fact is, despite Nixonian tacticians like Karl Rove, Nixon DID NOT
quickly concede the election to Kennedy. In true Nixon style, he was
very careful not to put a public imprimatur on the concerted Republican
effort to challenge the election results, but Richard Nixon actively
encouraged it.
True to Nixon fashion, a conservative journalist and close Nixon friend,
Earl Mazo, of the New
York Herald Tribune, launched a press frenzy over possible voter fraud.
[Mazo became Nixon's official biographer] and not only did Republican
senators like Thruston Morton ask for recounts in 11 states just three
days after the election, but Nixon aides Bob Finch and Len Hall
personally did field checks of votes in almost a dozen states.
The Republicans obtained recounts, involved U.S. Attorneys and the FBI,
and even impaneled grand juries in their quest to get a different
election result. A slew of lawsuits were filed by Republicans, and
unsuccessful appeals to state election commissions routinely followed.
Indeed, thanks to these overzealous efforts to prove otherwise, the
popular claim that Kennedy
stole the election in 1960, is absolutely fraudulent, and it is quite
ironic that Karl Rove justified stealing election 2000 by claiming that
John F. Kennedy did the very same thing in 1960.
We have all heard the popular claim that Sam Giancana won the election
for John F. Kennedy, but that proved to be an erroneous conclusion. Sam
Giancana may have supported Kennedy's re-election bid, but he did not
influence the result. As a matter of fact, in Illonois, the final
recount showed that Nixon's votes had been undercounted by 943 -- yet,
in 40 percent of the rechecked precincts, it turned out that Nixon's
vote had been overcounted. (Contrast this with Gore, whose vote total
steadily climbed during the Florida recount.) Unhappy with the results,
Republicans went to federal court, where their case was dismissed. They
then appealed to the State Board of Elections, which also rejected their
claims. It was not until Dec. 19 -- over a month after the election --
that the national Republican Party backed off its Illinois claims.
Similar results, and extended fights, took place in Texas and New Jersey
among other states. In Hawaii, Republican efforts had the unintended
result of reversing the state's electoral votes from Nixon to Kennedy.
Officially speaking, Richard Nixon removed himself from the fray, but he
always had his hand on the trigger, and the suggestion that he conceded
graciously in 1960 is pure misrepresentation.
The mainstream media occasionally paints a fair portrait of Richard
Nixon. When the New York Times periodically exposes the fact that Nixon
was somewhat "crazy" -- immensely intelligent, well organized and
experienced, but at moments of stress or personal challenge
unpredictable and capable of the bloodiest brutality" it exposes the
genuine truth, but the fact that Richard Nixon was essentially a
cold-hearted butcher who was capable of anything, has not been given the
due it deserves. Clearly, it is utter madness to suggest that it is
possible to understand anything about Richard Nixon if we ignore the
fact that he consistently climbed over the dead bodies of his enemies,
and it is time to unravel what Nixon called factual uncertainty, because
his conclusion was based on a profound misunderstanding regarding the
power of a reasonable, historical assessment.
It is not possible to make sense of Richard Nixon's life and to
simultaneously ignore the fact that the Kennedys were always the target
of the manevolent conspiracies he enthusiastically embraced. In the
Watergate tapes of March 13, 1973, between 12:42 and 2pm, John Dean made
a cryptic half-comment about Ted Kennedy's involvement in the accident
at Chappaquidick, saying, "If Kennedy knew the bear trap he was walking
into--"
What "bear trap" was Ted walking into? What did John Dean know, and when did he know it?
There are all kinds of hints about all kinds of treacherous operations
that Nixon routinely engaged in a covert manner, but the crime that he
was most heavily involved in, is the assassination of President John F.
Kennedy.
What is quite clear, despite all the secrecy and the deliberate amnesia,
is that Richard Nixon was in the thick of every aspect of the Kennedy
assassination, from foreknowledge [he fled the crime scene just before
the assassination] to the silly deceptions of his criminal cohorts,
Frank Sturgis and Howard Hunt, to the dealmaking with Kingmaker, J.Edgar
Hoover, Richard Nixon did not miss a beat. Everything was planned,
staged, rehearsed and delivered in a manner that left nothing to chance.
Indeed, when Kennedy was murdered in 1963, Nixon did not oppose
Johnson's political candidacy because Kingmaker Hoover called the shots,
and feigned "continuity" with the Kennedy administration demanded a
single, viable political candidate -Lyndon Johnson. If the obsession to
cover up the Kennedy assassination did not dominate, Nixon would have
opposed Johnson in 1964 and would have campaigned on the fear-mongering
claim that Kennedy was soft on Communism. After all, despite Richard
Nixon's persistent demands, John F. Kennedy refused to invade Cuba, and
that is the only "pretense" that Nixon needed, to oppose Johnson in
1964, unless of course, the facts that we are not supposed to know
about, are carefully considered.
Secrecy and deception distorts history and the need to determine the
truth demands an objective, impartial and thorough analysis. In
particular, it is folly to ignore the deception behind the assassination
of Nixon's arch rival, John F. Kennedy.
Frank Sturgis, Howard Hunt and Richard Nixon had a huge steak in the
assassination of John F. Kennedy, and that is why they were in Dallas
during, before and after the Kennedy assassination [their combined
effort in terms of off-site and on-site involvement is well recorded]
and while they may not remember exactly where they were when Kennedy was
shot, they did not have to because they were arrested in Dealy Plaza.
Not surprisingly, in 1976, Frank Sturgis claimed that the assassination
of John F. Kennedy had been organized by Fidel Castro and Che Guevara.
Like J. Edgar Hoover and Richard Nixon, who instantly [November 22nd,
1963] claimed that Lee Harvey Oswald, the Communist, was responsible for
the assassination of John F. Kennedy, the telling diversions of Kenedy
assassination co-conspirators and cover up artists speak for themselves.
Hunt had been a CIA employee in 1963, Sturgis, was not a CIA employee,
but he had been involved in CIA-related activities, but as Watergate has
aptly demonstrated, they were essentially "independent contractors" who
worked with like-minded fanatics like Richard Nixon, they did not have a
legitimate, official capacity. Richard Nixon's close association with
J.Edgar Hoover was also an unofficial capacity that made it difficult to
unravel all the secrecy and deception that is responsible for giving
them the opportunity to get away with all the planning, the execution
and the plot to cover up the truth about the assassination of John F.
Kennedy.
Howard Hunt's longterm connection to Frank Sturgis and Richard Nixon
reflects the motley crew of Kennedy assassination co-conspirators who
are repeatedly called suspects because there is good reason to be
suspicious. Indeed, their subsequent, "Watergate" involvement provides a
good insight into the scope and the nature of their operations, and as
history betrays their consistent modus operandi, the fact that Howard
Hunt and Frank Sturgis were escorted through Dealey Plaza by Dallas
police officers, on November 22nd, 1963, provides clear and convincing
evidence about their involvement in the assassination of John F.
Kennedy. Like Richard Nixon, they were both front row, active
participants in the plot to neutralize the Kennedy agenda, and the
impatient firing squad executed the primary target when all the ducks
were in a row [over the obsession to prosecute the Vietnam war].
It is difficult to trace these assassins but it is not impossible,
despite the fact that Howard Hunt thinks that he is a real operational
genius because he was off-site when he coordinated the physical break-in
to the Democratic national party headquarters office at the Watergate
hotel. They all tried to cover their tracks, but who can possibly
imagine allowing the Kennedy assassination to go forward, without the
enthusiastic support of Nixon cronies like Frank Sturgis and Howard
Hunt? It is simply "un-patriotic" to suggest that they were not in the
thick of the plot to assassinate the President, and if they did not fear
criminal prosecution, they would have actively bragged about their
contribution. Indeed, when Fidel Castro gained control of Cuba, Sturgis
formed the Anti-Communist Brigade, and his gun-runnig activity in Cuba
was a part of the initial activity that eventually morphed into the
obsession to murder Kennedy because he was deemed to be soft on
Communism. In particular, when President Kennedy began to talk about
Vietnam in terms of being a civil war rather than a vital, American, the
use of deadly force, to settle issues that were considered to be
military rather than political, was not even an issue, hense the need to
assassinate President John F. Kennedy was not seriously challenged.

These three men were directly involved in the assassination of John F.
Kennedy. The attractive, no-nonsence, GQ model-lookalike is Charles
Harrelson the contract killer who looked out of place, in the company of
the shabbily dressed, imposter hobos, Frank Sturgis and Howard Hunt.

The disjointed picture of Frank Sturgis, Howard Hunt and Charles
Harrelson is quite comical.
As Howard grimaces and Sturgis sports his shabby pants, the carefree,
catwalk strutting Harrelson stands in stark contrast, probably because
the independent contractor did not care to act or dress like a hobo
imposter.

Charles Harrelson, the third tramp, was a contract killer and according
to Jack Anderson, whom Nixon tried to have killed, he was involved in
the assassination of John F. Kennedy. Harrelson is believed to be one of
the gunmen behind the picket fence on the Grassy Knoll. Harrelson was
one of the three tramps arrested in Dealey Plaza on 22nd November, 1963,
along with Frank Sturgis and Howard Hunt. In 1992, the Dallas Police
Department claimed that the three tramps were Gus Abrams, John F. Gedney
and Harold Doyle, but the photographic evidence proves otherwise.
In 1968 Harrelson was convicted of the murder of businessman, Sam
Degelia, in a contract killing in South Texas. After serving time he was
released, and in 1979 Harrelson was paid $250,000 by drug dealers to
assassinate Federal Judge John H. Wood. On 29th May, 1979, Wood was shot
dead, the first federal judge to be murdered in the 20th century.
When he was arrested for murdering a federal judge he confessed to being
one of the gunmen who shot at President John F. Kennedy. He later
withdrew this confession, but the admission is more credible than the
denial. He received two life sentences for the murder of Wood in a
criminal investigation which proved to be more expensive than the
investigation in the assassination of President John F. Kennedy.
In 1995 Harrelson attempted to break out of Atlanta Federal Prison. He
was recaptured and moved to Florence Administrative Maximum Penitentiary
in Colorado.
Charles Harrelson is also a former Jack Ruby Strip Bar Bouncer, and if
that doesn't push all the skeptics over the fence, nothing ever will. In
retrospect, if Jack Ruby could not rely on the man who committed paid
murders for the mob, it is because Charles Harrelson had met his quota
for November, 1963.

Chuck Cook, a reporter for the Dallas morning news interviewed
Harrelson on the judge Wood case and subsequently asked him about his
claims of murdering the President. Cook said that Harrelson ‘got this
sly little grin on his face, Harrelson is very intelligent and has a way
of not answering when it suits him.’ At a later interview Cook brought
the subject up again and at that point Harrelson became very serious,
Cook quoted Harrelson as saying "Listen, if and when I get out of here
(prison) and feel free to talk, I will have something that will be the
biggest story you ever had" and added "November 22, 1963. You remember
that!". Most of the time, when Harrelson has been questioned with regard
to the assassination he has emphatically denied it, but Cook showed the
photos of the three tramps to Harrison’s wife Jo Ann Harrelson who was
"amazed at the similarities." Indeed, even aging has not affected the
resemblance.

It is not really certain whether Harrelson was successful in his
mission to kill the President. He could have fired the shot that missed.
What is absolutely certain is that he was with Howard Hunt and Frank
Sturgis at the scene of the crime, that Nixon was evidently an off-site
operative and 'Watergate' is merely an act that includes many crimes,
including the assassination of John F. Kennedy.

The battle between Nixon loyalists and Nixon targets is still a huge
factor in American politics.
When Bill Clinton was elected President, Nixon loyalists adopted the
mantra "if the press can impeach Nixon, the press can impeach Clinton"
and they stuck to it, to provoke the greatest constitutional crisis
since Watergate. Nobody blamed the media because former Nixon spies like
Lucianne Goldberg are no longer called spies, they are called "the
media", and the phony distinction between the "Liberal" media and the
"Conservative" media has become a license to distort the truth without
the need to act like a treacherous spy. Why pretend to be a journalist
to spy on your opponent, when you can call yourself a "Conservative
journalist" and lie about your opponent with impunity?
In actual fact the media should not be "Liberal" or "Conservative", it
should be reliable, but when Richard Nixon was forced to resign, he
blamed the liberal media for his predicament and he spent the rest of
his life cultivating the power to do the same to his enemies.
The climax of the plot to impeach President Clinton was April 1, 1998,
when Dick Morris foamed around the mouth on national television and
vehemently condemned what he called, the "Nixonian creep that we have
seen in the Clinton White House." Dick Morris called himself a
journalist, but in fact, he was acting like Lucianne Goldberg who had
pretended to be a journalist in the 1970's, because she was trying to
gain political advantage for Richard Nixon.
Moreover, the very same money that was responsible for backing Richard
Nixon in the 1970's was responsible for attacking Bill Clinton, and a
memo dated May 12, 1971, from Charles Colson to H. R. Haldeman,
identified the long-standing, finanial, Scaife/Nixon relationship.
According to the memo: "...Dick Scaife is feeling very down on the
administration at the moment. Inasmuch as Scaife has been one of our
biggest financial backers, I think we need to consider perhaps some
unusual steps to rebuild relationships."
Thankfully, Richard Nixon's financial backers did not make him President
of the United States, in 1960, because he would have probably invaded
Cuba and triggered a nuclear war with the Soviet Union, in the process.
As a matter of fact, that is exactly what Richard Nixon advised Kennedy
to do. In his own words, speaking to Kennedy about Cuba, Richard Nixon
said, "I would find a proper legal cover and I would go in. There are
several justifications that could be used, like protecting American
citizens living in Cuba and defending our base at Guatanamo. I believe
that the most important thing at this point is that we do whatever is
necessary to get Castro and communism out of Cuba." Fortunately, John F.
Kennedy was the President of the United States, in 1960.
Unfortunately for the President however, Richard Nixon and Lyndon
Johnson were reading from the same page, regarding the obsession to
prosecute the Vietnam war, and that became absolutely clear when Richard
Nixon did not challenge Johnson's political candidacy in 1964. In other
words, while Lyndon Johnson publicly promised to maintain the Kennedy
agenda, he had privately reached a secret deal which Nixon, and that was
the real, credibility gap of the Johnson White House. Needless to say,
Nixon did not oppose Lyndon Johnson in 1964 because his choices were
determined by the "politics" of the Kennedy assassination. Everybody who
had a hand in the plot to assassinate Kennedy had his role defined for
him, Richard Nixon did not have unilateral authority over a diverse,
group efort. If that were the case, he would have opposed Lyndon
Johnson's political candidacy in 1964, but he did not.

Case Closed:
Charles V. Harrelson was found Dead in his cell of "natural causes" on
March 15, 2007, just days after E. Howard Hunt confessed to being one of
the three tramps photographed in Dealey Plaza. Harrelson reportedly
died very suddenly, in his sleep, giving those who are so inclined, the
opportunity to deny the obvious.According to California Private
Investigator, Paul Kangas, and he is one of the best, FBI documents
prove that Jack Ruby had been an employee of Richard Nixon since 1947.
Jack Ruby was allegedly listed as working as a spy & hit man for
Nixon. On November 22, 1963 Ruby was seen by a women who knew him well,
Julian Ann Mercer, approximately an hour before the arrival of JFK's
motorcade, unloading a man carrying a rifle in a case at the Grassy
Knoll from his car. Ruby was later seen on national TV killing a witness who could link Nixon and Johnson
to the killing of JFK. Richard Nixon was Vice President from 1952 until
1960 and is credited with planning Operation 40, the secret 1961
invasion of Cuba. The glove fits.

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Interesting read, but one fatal flop, If he was hit above the right ear as Hill states, the entry wound would not be palm size, the exit wound would though, suggesting the shot came from the left, entry wounds are small, usually the size of the round, Hill would know this. More and more theories divert.

Wrong! The assassination was a hoax! JFK was also using the pseudonym Jimmy Carter. Joe Kennedy's was also Jimmy Carter's father, Prescott Bush and Quentin Roosevelt just to name a few! The Zapruder film was a hoax and the entire film was a Walt Diosney aka Kermit Roosevelt production.